Drawing tendentious distinctions between ‘fields’ or ‘disciplines’ or ‘approaches’ or ‘methods’ of thinking is at least as old as Socrates, who (at least as Plato presents him to us) very desperately wanted to distinguish ‘philosophy’ from ‘rhetoric’ (or ‘sophistry’) and ‘poetry’. These days, one almost expects to see new ‘fields’ proclaimed weekly. Which then requires…Continue readingThoughts on ‘What is DH?’
Academics love to dispute. I mean, there is nothing that humans like better than disagreeing with one other, preferably with the goal of justifying violence against one another. But academics take it to another level entirely. The typical academic dispute looks like this: On the one side you have the quadrists, who vehemently insist that…Continue readingOn academic dispute
For this history, I chose to look at reggiochildren.it, the website of Reggio Children S.r.l., the entity created by the municipality of Reggio Emilia, Italy, for promoting and protecting the Reggio Emilia Approach® to early childhood education. I think it fair to consider a pedagogy to be a cultural product, as a general statement, while…Continue readingA History of reggiochildren.it