[MD] Ways of Knowing

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

>From: MarshaV <marshalz at charter.net>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] Ways of Knowing
>Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:01:26 -0400
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>Okay how about if I change the language, or am I totally off track?
>
>Try this:
>
>An example of Social Level SPoVs might be like those connected with
>ancient boat building.  Boats were built dependent on the shared and
>repetitive experience of having observed which boats could float,
>which couldn't, and which floated better.
>
>After Archemedes discovered the principles of displacement,
>mathematical calculations could be used to design and build a better
>boat for more precise purposes.  These might be an example of
>Intellectual Level SPoVs.

Hi Marsha

I think you're comments are right on the money. Before intellectual patterns 
of value came to dominance, knowledge was passed along socially: mother to 
daughter, father to son, teacher to apprentice. With the advent of the 
university around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, 
knowledge could be passed along in ways which no longer required the 
one-on-one social teaching styles. As per your example above, I think the 
MOQ would say that putting intellectual principles to work within social 
level activities allows knowledge to be shared in more readily assessible 
and better ways.

Dan