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Forestfortrees bookmarked on 2008-05-28 curriculum education science literature humanities literacies consilience learning anthropology dilemma dichotomy analysis

Levine’s comment brings up themes that we’ve spent considerable time on here. Simple dichotomies do not work. Familiarity with multiple fields is necessary. And even then, most integrative accounts end up with the kiss of death, banality, because they reduce their argument to some cause that remains field specific. It’s the details of the synthesis that matters, not just the promise.

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Jeremy Price
curriculum education science literature humanities literacies consilience learning anthropology dilemma dichotomy analysis
- Levine’s comment brings up themes that we’ve spent considerable time on here. Simple dichotomies do not work. Familiarity with multiple fields is necessary. And even then, most integrative accounts end up with the kiss of death, banality, because they reduce their argument to some cause that remains field specific. It’s the details of the synthesis that matters, not just the promise.