I had literally just finished reading a piece by John Dewey an hour before doing this class's reading. I'm taking an aesthetics class, philosophy of art, and we had to read Dewey's "Art as Experience." He talked about how the experiences of the "common people" are key to understanding a piece of artwork. Many of the philosophers we've read so far in Aesthetics class tended to put themselves on a golden pedestal because they apparently had a super brain power to understand and unravel the mystery of Art. But Dewey said that art should rise from real experience and so it's not this unobtainable thing that only an elite few can understand.
For "Situating Narrative Inquiry" Clandinin talked about how the product comes from understanding experiences. Dewey seemed to be the opposite in that he said experiences result in the product.
Quotes:
Numbers, scientists sometimes assert, are less ambiguous than language, and thus their interpretation is more straightforward.
Plotlines, character, setting, and action (Bal, 1997) provide ways of holdingmeaning together in more complex, relational, and therefore more nuanced ways than flowcharts or number tables.
Multiple views make for closer attention to a wider variety ofhuman experience.
For "Situating Narrative Inquiry" Clandinin talked about how the product comes from understanding experiences. Dewey seemed to be the opposite in that he said experiences result in the product.
Quotes:
Numbers, scientists sometimes assert, are less ambiguous than language, and thus their interpretation is more straightforward.
Plotlines, character, setting, and action (Bal, 1997) provide ways of holdingmeaning together in more complex, relational, and therefore more nuanced ways than flowcharts or number tables.
Multiple views make for closer attention to a wider variety ofhuman experience.
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