[NLA] knowing, saying?

[Andres Muro]

Janet:

A little of both. Some great practitioners can practice and cannot articulate what makes their practice good, sort of like muscicians that play great by ear. At the same time, they could improve on their practice by learning some theory in addition to being able to articulate what they know and cannot express. 

When I speak about theory, I am speaking at two levels. There is theroy that talks about how to teach, what model to use, etc. There is also social theroy that talks about context, ideology, etc. I believe that good artists need both to become better. 

Andres

>>> Janet_Isserlis at brown.edu 12/10/02 02:10PM >>>
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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