tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post8584943397103909892..comments2024-03-26T04:19:38.862-07:00Comments on kitchen table math, the sequel: against "controlled" researchCatherine Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-79757177533025516742007-02-22T17:26:00.000-08:002007-02-22T17:26:00.000-08:00I have proof!K-12 people believe in data.I have proof!<BR/><BR/><B>K-12 people believe in data</B>.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-62084244117647986982007-02-22T17:25:00.000-08:002007-02-22T17:25:00.000-08:00Of course the other thing that always gets you in ...Of course the other thing that always gets you in the end is the way these various ideologies one-doesn't-like glom onto <I>other</I> ideologies one-doesn't-like and morph into big, fat, monster ideologies than can kill small animals with a single thought wave.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-85328986787340824722007-02-22T17:23:00.001-08:002007-02-22T17:23:00.001-08:00I find myself often wanting to explain things like...I find myself often wanting to explain things like RELATIVISM and UNCERTAINTY. <BR/><BR/>In my modest way, of course.Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-88105722879780613352007-02-22T17:23:00.000-08:002007-02-22T17:23:00.000-08:00You're in a college, right?I think we're looking a...You're in a college, right?<BR/><BR/>I think we're looking at two different sociologies...<BR/><BR/>Here in K-12 ed school thinking seems to be plain old-fashioned Romanticism.<BR/><BR/>Certainly the folks running my school have <I>deep</I> belief in the absolute knowability - the incontroversial, shared knowability - of reality.<BR/><BR/>"He's a 3."Catherine Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-43856823316541518012007-02-22T14:19:00.000-08:002007-02-22T14:19:00.000-08:00"Stone's argument, in Developmentalism: An Obscure..."Stone's argument, in Developmentalism: An Obscure but Pervasive Restriction on Educational Improvement, is that the holism and developmentalism of education school ideology mean that an educationist will be inclined to reject controlled scientific research for the very reason that it is controlled scientific research."<BR/><BR/>Indeed. They literally despise empiricism. Though it isn't really Romanticism. There's certainly an element of Romanticism, but postmodernism is more a resurrection of solipsism combined with nihilism. It's not so much that they object to empiricism because it violates Romantic holism, but because it violates their solipsism. Empiricism, you see, requires that there be an objective reality, that truth is testable, and therefore, not relative to one's perception.<BR/><BR/>That's what they hate.rightwingprofhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12419372059353408855noreply@blogger.com