New Directions for Inquiry and Education: Empirical Non-Foundationalism

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