Reflections on Conversations and Dialogues with Recent Settlers (Dispatch)

Monologues, Dialogues, and Interactive Conversations:

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the on-line discourse accompanying a year-long professional development experience. Participants in this study were 19 graduate students, 5 teacher-leaders, and 1 university faculty member involved in a Reading Institute taught at an urban university in the Southeast. Primary data sources for the study consisted of over 1300 bulletin board po...

Reflections on conversations with Robert Bell and Michael Guerriere: what is relevant research?

Two decision-makers from the acute-care sector weigh in on the issue of relevant research. Between the two of them they look for patient-defined research, evidence to support the conclusions, information that can lead to interventions designed to improve quality and outcomes and defined control mechanisms to properly identify the practices that improved the system. Three examples are cited and ...

Participation, Metaphysics, and Enlightenment: Reflections on Ken Wilber’s Recent Work

This paper discusses a number of key issues raised in the recent dialogue on the work of Ken Wilber between John Rowan and Michael Daniels, mediated by David Fontana and chaired by Malcolm Walley (Rowan, Daniels, Fontana, & Walley, 2009). First, it responds to Rowan’s defense of Wilber’s work in the wake of the participatory critique. Second, it addresses the question of the cultural versus uni...

Racial Reflections: Dialogues in the Direction of Liberation

Limits to Modularity: Reflections on Recent Developments in Chip Design

Research on ‘‘modularity’’ has made an important contribution to the study of technical change and economic institutions. It demonstrates that progress in the division of labor in design (technical modularity) has created new opportunities for the organization of firms beyond vertical integration, by fostering vertical specialization in both manufacturing and innovation. However, a small, but g...