Is learning our earnest? LO20571

Ray E. Harrell (mcore@IDT.NET)
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 01:21:58 -0500

Replying to LO20562 --

Mark Feenstra wrote:

> It is my offering to the altar of this question that to engage with it I
> need to reflect on what my relationship is to the reality that the term
> "in earnest" points toward. This brings back into question what I include
> and exclude in my definition of reality. (snip)

On a less artistic and more practical level I would recommend the
following for a disturbing analysis of what it means to be a knowledge
worker and how we are proceeding with the idea that knowledge worker, like
Learning Organization is not a process but a stable place that processes
spring from. That could be a terminal mistake by we English speakers. It
is a paper written by Kit Sims Taylor for the International Conference on
the Social Impact of Information Technologies in St. Louis, Missouri,
U.S.A., October 12-14, 1998.

It is found at:
http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/econ/kst/BriefReign/BRwebversion.htm

The author's website is http://online.bcc.ctc.edu/econ/kst/Kstpage.htm

Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Chamber Opera of New York, Inc.
mcore@idt.net

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