Inventions of Teaching by Davis Brent;

Author:Davis, Brent;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-11-18T00:00:00+00:00

COMMON ROOTS, DIFFERENT BRANCHES

Structuralist and poststructuralist discourses should be read as complements. Their departures from one another tend to be around matters of emphasis, not conceptual commitment.

For instance, across both sets of discourses, formal logic is seen as an important tool in the generation of new ideas and the validation of old ones. Logic, however, is not seen as the sole or even the principal means to these ends. In fact logic is not even seen as a selfcontained or discrete mode of thought. Rather, like all modes of sense-making, logic is understood to be co-dependent with other interpretive devices, like narrative and analogy. Metaphor—the process of mapping one category of experiences onto another—figures particularly prominently across these discourses. Some have gone so far as to argue that humanity’s most sophisticated conceptual achievements are matters of elaborations of metaphors that are anchored in such primary bodily experiences as walking, climbing, and eating.15

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