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The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity (Hardcover, 2012)
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The Practice of Theoretical Curiosity (Hardcover, 2012)
Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose, 20
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The desire for knowledge is an abiding facet of human experience
and cultural development. This work documents curiosity as a
sociohistorical force initiating research across the disciplines.
Projects generated by theoretical curiosity are presented as
historical and material practices emerging as expressions of
embodied knowledge and experience. The shifting cultural,
philosophical and practical relations between theory and curiosity
are situated within classical, medieval, early modern and
contemporary communities of practice. The Practice of Theoretical
Curiosity advocates for a critical, aesthetic engagement in
everyday life. Its purpose is to examine the pedagogical grounds
and questions that motivate research programs in the sciences,
education, technoculture and post-war social movements. Theoretical
curiosity continually resists disciplinary limits. It is a core,
embodied process uniting human pursuits of knowledge and power.
This inquiry into inquiry itself offers an appreciation of the
vital continuity between the senses, perception, and affect and
concept development. It is informed by a critical reading of
phenomenology as the embodied practice of researchers. This study
sponsors a deepening of theory in practice and the practice of
theoretical exploration. As a contribution to pedagogical practice,
it offers a historical critique of the usually unquestioned
philosophical, political and ethical grounds for educational,
scientific and social research. The Practice of Theoretical
Curiosity profiles significant alliances and persona as agents for
the pursuit of novel and often controversial research, adventures
and discovery. It claims that the place of technology and the
technical is the primary channel for contemporary inquiry. The
technosciences of genomics, artificial life and astrobiology are
considered as contemporary extensions of a perennial desire to
pursue and resist the limits of existing knowledge and
representation.
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