As I said:
One of the first rules of education is that you
can't teach anyone something
that they don't have in their experience already.
that they don't have in their experience already.
Our experiences are drastically
different. I would recommend you look at the brain states studies of
Dr. Paula Washington in Chamber Musicians. The title is: AN
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHIC STUDY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE; IMAGINED VERSUS
ACTUAL PLAYING AND SOLO VERSUS CHAMBER PLAYING. It is a PHD
thesis in the School of Education at New York University 1993.
Dr. Washington, a violist, conductor and teacher a
the LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts in New York City did
as you are doing. She wrote her proposal from her experience and
then set out to understand that experience using the Brain lab at
NYU. She found vastly different results from what you
imply. We are not talking metaphor here as in Sternberg
but actual group learning as a result. I did research in it
for the Francis Clark Piano Library in group study in the 1960s and I've known
about it for forty years. I certainly mean no disrespect as our
experiences are obviously different as are our academic
studies. I would simply say that this is an area of
expertise that I have a lot of time and work in and I have
arrived conclusions that are not explainable in other manner than as a
group consciousness that operates as an organism and that springs from a type of
brain state that all must share together in order to participate and that it
is measurable by Electroencephalography.
Best
Ray Evans Harrell
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> draft version got out first.
>
> Ed
>
> > Just for purposes of discussion- can we try to think 'outside the box' of
> > capitalism as it exists today, especially in the U.S.
> >
> > Would most of you agree :-) (I don't know the symbol for tongue-in-cheek)
> > that, with all due respect to Harry, it might be possibleto control
> > capitalism so that it works for the good of the general public, including
> > the capitalists? No, they would not be able to make their obscene profits
> > and salaries; but could there be incentives such that creativity would be
> > encouraged, especially since the risks would be reduced?
> >
> > Selma
> >
>
> Selma, you're getting very close to what the Soviet Union was like. It
> wasn't really communism, it was state capitalism that was supposed to
> benefit everyone, but that in actual fact benefited some far more than
> others. The Soviet Union started out as an ideal egalitarian state, but
> soon demonstrated something that may be inherent in human nature, that
> people will want to exercise control and will divide themselves into classes
> to do so.
>
> Personally, I don't think there is any possibility of achieving anything
> like benign, good for all, capitalism. An individual company can perhaps
> operate for a time without too much internal conflict by making its
> employees its major shareholders (United Airlines?), but, typically, that
> company has to operate in a competitive market that is anything but benign
> and friendly. It may have to cut costs and lay people off, just as
> privately held firms do.
>
> One has to see society divided into interest groups. What is good for
> capitalists is not necessarily good for labour and v.v. IMHO, the only real
> hope labour has is maintaining its bargaining power, but that has become
> difficult because labour has changed and is no longer clearly definable.
> Auto workers may still be "labour" (and well paid labour), but what about
> clerical or administrative workers in the financial sector? And what about
> techies? They probably see themselves as aspiring Bill Gates's, or at least
> they probably did until the dot.com crash. What people seem to have lost is
> a sense of common purpose and an understanding of which side of the
> bargaining table they're on.
>
> Ed
>
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