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Mike, Robert The centrality of metaphors and how they are applied in *ways* of knowing is something I've been playing with, especially Gadamers expression, *fusion* of horizons. The metaphor of *fusion AS metaphor* or alternatively *metaphor AS fusion*. Could the phrase *metaphoricity of horizons* be pointing to the same underlying notion as *fusions of horizons as a *way* of structuring horizons of understanding that share family resemblances that neither collapse into *identity* [copy or mirroring] or become so differentiated or distanced [separated, cut] that they loose their shared meaning. In other words, horizons as linked or *bridged* [interrelated] *as* metaphorically composed structurings. Gadamer would suggest that historicity [before-structures] are always interrelated or bridged [fused] with future orientations [anticipation-structures] and in THIS fusion of horizons BOTH horizons are transformed and expanded. From Gadamers perspective the horizon of before-structures are not static but dynamically transformed in the engagement with anticipation-structures as ways to orient to the future. The question then becomes *who* or *what* is the midwife. Gadamer makes a case for before-structures as the womb of new com-positions and communities of belonging *as* the midwife. For Gadamer we exist within historical understanding [which I believe is metaphorically composed AND expanded] and grounds [metaphorically] anticipation structures. Larry Larry On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>wrote: > Thanks Mike, > I love it when the "strange > becomes familiar and the familiar becomes > strange. > RL > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote: > > > For some reason your quotation from Dewey struck me just now, Robert, > often > > as I have seen it. It got me to thinking along with thinking about AERA > and > > its events and face-to-face time. Nice to be able to "see it" at a > > distance, but real time IS real time. > > > > Here is the quotation: > > *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its > > midwife.* > > *-*John Dewey. > > > > We talk a lot about metaphors around xmca and the metaphor of a midwife > for > > education is certainly a potent metaphor. > > > > Would we put up with the success rate for education if that > > social/institution's success rate is less than that of the midewife. > > So what kind of a midwife is education, anyway? Where does the metaphor > > lead us? > > > > If you pick up some helpful pointers in Vancouver, let us all know! > > > > :-)) > > mike > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > xmca mailing list > > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > > > > > -- > *Robert Lake Ed.D. > *Assistant Professor > Social Foundations of Education > Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading > Georgia Southern University > P. O. Box 8144 > Phone: (912) 478-5125 > Fax: (912) 478-5382 > Statesboro, GA 30460 > > *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its > midwife.* > *-*John Dewey. > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca