[NLA] knowing, saying?

[Janet Isserlis]

Andres,

Are you saying that practitioners know little or that they don't 
necessarily articulate what they know ?
> At the same time, there are great theoreticians who are lousy 
>practitioners, and excellent practitioners who know very little. 
>Herbart argued that there is the science and the art of education. I 
>believe that some people are artists at heart even if they lack the 
>science. However, mastering the science ought to improve their art 
>(I am not sure what the point of this is but I think that it relates 
>to your overall question).


What does this have to do with policy?  Plenty, I'd say.  We need to 
be able to speak to / about what comprises good practice, what 
learning is and how it occurs.  Enough of a struggle it is for us to 
speak with one voice; we also need to be able to think about how we 
communicate all this information to one another, to learners and to 
policy makers.

Janet
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