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Knowing What We Know
   
History of Inquiry While we talk of reflection as 
  • mental concentration 
  • as careful consideration or a thought 
  • or an opinion resulting from such consideration 
...how did we learn to inquire? 

Depending on your learning style, you may find critical reflection a waste. Forget about it! I want to fix the problem. Let's not waste time with navel gazing.

Hip hop adolescent culture puts cache on speed. How fast can you get something done?
Roots                                                                 When we think about our dominant modes of inquiry, we can often forget that our culture has forwarded an ethos from the puritans, Native Americans, and Slaves. From these groups, we learned to accept faith and doubt as mutual! Individual and society were also interdependent! We don't have to take an either/or stance because of them.

It was only in the early 1900s during the efficacy movement that we began to think of kids as "units." Thus began standardized tests. Today's testing hysteria is a product of this movement. So what if the test results are inconclusive... they're still efficient!
 
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["Great attention must be paid to judgment of the heart."]

C.S. Peirce.

[A man must be willing to dump his whole cartload of beliefs the moment experience is against them."] 

William James
   



Citadel Life
 
Inquiry as weapon Reflection/inquiry is a weapon against fossilized and often dangerous traditions. The Citadel's might be a good example. 

Read: Citadel. 

According to Margaret Fuller, "Male and female represent the two side of the great radical dualism. But, in fact, they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman." 

Does it ever help us to not think? Would you argue that we should just leave some traditions unquestioned?
The Challenge of Inquiry  Our romantic/pragmatic pattern of inquiry, asks us to test our beliefs. How do we know what we know? Could it be otherwise? What difference does it make? 

Being obsessed by these questions makes you a researcher and an inquirer. Being obsessed by how these questions can help you understand your role in the community makes you an action researcher. More on this later.
Question for the Thread How is the learning record a reflective tool?
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