Empirical Inquiry: Limitations and Possibilities
Paul Grobstein
Center for Science in Society
7 December 2007
| overview| no unwobbling pivots | story | intersubjectivity | inquiry and education |
New Directions for Inquiry and Education: Empirical Non-Foundationalism |
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Stop trying to get it right, enjoy instead the creative freedom of aspiring instead to get it less wrong, of continually creating new generative stories using all three loops
Suggestions from empirical non-foundationalism:
- Recognize the inadequacy of purely empirical approaches, embrace the additional two productive loops ... the unconscious/story teller and the interpersonal
- Commit to helping students acquire not only critical but creative skills, using all three loops
- Accept/value the role of stories in inquiry, and of diversity of stories
- Commit to sharing that understanding with students ... and with the world at large
- Enjoy/share enjoyment of the certainty of the unknown and our collective participation in creating what might yet be
Thanks for listening to my story, please share how it relates to/influences your own and how it might in turn influence mine