It is the sound of my brain being used again for the first time in ages! Coo, continuing my database searches with Ingenta Connect (bloody useless!) and JSTOR, it goes from the sublime to the ridiculous… IC refuses to search for terms with more than one wildcard and JSTOR only allows three! Honestly, call themselves research resources? Pfewy!
Anyway, I managed get the ball rolling again… even if I am regretting doing so at such a late stage. The snow means that I am unlikely to be able to take a day off this week, which means my research will be put back further still. Oh I know I will be able to fit bit of it in around work, kids and the like, but I had two whole, free, days this week that I was looking forward to cracking on with it. Alas.
What else? Ah yes, I used to work for a charity called Fairbridge that (used to) take young people up t’hills with the hope of instilling camaraderie, self-esteem, personal accountability etc. From this I wrote a short article (issue 36) about the uses of perceived risk as a tool for enhancing the learning found in a given situation. Thinking about my current research in terms of logological learning, it occurred to me that it might be possible to replicate the (discontinuous) events that might precipitate this type of learning through use of the outdoors. My somewhat vague hypothesis is that risk, or rather the perception of risk, may allow or even demand the individual learn conceptually rather than incrementally. Well, from here it seemed reasonable to approach someone with more knowledge of the sector and I have arranged a meeting to that end. Another potential angle to the whole infra/logo-logical debate…
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