Infodrome is a thinktank for the Dutch government: a “programme of studies, reports, evaluations, conferences and other activities focussed on contributing on the design of policy of government in the information society”. The purpose is to accomplish insights that are useful to formulating policies for the next Dutch Cabinet. Infodrome was installed by dr. Rick van der Ploeg, the Dutch State Secretary of Education, Culture and Science, authorised by the Dutch Cabinet for a period of two years. Infodrome is led by a steering group with the State Secretary as its chairman and the directors of the Dutch planning agencies as members. The steering group is advised by a supervisory committee in which al the Dutch Ministries are represented on directorate level. The Programme Bureau is located in the offices of the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences) in Amsterdam. 2 VOORWOORD

ABSTRACT This article seeks to interrogate conceptions of cognition and knowledge, explicit and implicit, that underpin conventional projects of educational research. Developed around our own efforts to make sense of the contingent and complex nature of a recent action research project, the discussion develops an enactivist account of cognition that is offered as an alternative both to subject-centred orientations (e.g. representationism and constructivism) and culture-privileging accounts (e.g. critical and sociocultural theories). The relevance of enactivism for educational action research – conceived as a site for learning, and hence tranformative of both individual and collective – is examined in terms of the practical and moral dimensions of the activity. As part of an action research project inquiring into the teaching of literature and mathematics in a small urban elementary school, we met with a group of teachers one day after school to discuss our responses to Lois Lowry’s (1993) novel The Giver. We had been meeting with these teachers for several months and were excited about the possibilities of including this Newbery Medal winning novel for ‘best adolescent fiction ’ into our work with teachers and students in this school. A science fiction story centering around the experiences of a young boy who lives in a futuristic world, where all cultural memories are ‘stored ’ in one person designated the ‘receiver of memories,’ this book had captured the interest and attention of many adults and children across North America. We were thus surprised when Jean, the school principal, announced that “Some of the subject matter is just too controversial for the book to be included in this community. ” She was referring to the book’s rather frank depictions of infanticide and euthanasia, as well as its allusions to the sexual awakening of adolescent characters. The other teachers quickly agreed:

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As linguists working with the revival, maintenance, and survival of Native American languages have noted, the forces causing languages to become obsolete are not merely linguistic: Political, economic, and social factors all influence the viability of indigenous languages. Thus, researchers addressing Native American issues must pay attention to these factors in order to understand more fully the complexity of language decisions for Native Americans. However, the majority of research done on Native American languages is done by non-Natives. This Native subject/non-Native researcher relationship is a problematic one, given the longstanding practice of non-Native people making decisions for and about Native Americans. To make matters even more complex, the dominant North American culture has a long tradition of mythologizing Native Americans as pre-literate "children of nature "-- an outdated stereotype that does not reflect the sophisticated appropriation of computer technology by Native American communities during the "Internet revolution " of the last 10 years. This paper explores the complex history of Native American language research before discussing how one Native school is utilizing Web technology. NATIVE AMERICANS AND TECHNOLOGY: WELCOME TO THE FUTURE

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This article offers an alternative to classical hermeneutics, which focuses on discursive products and grasps meaning as the play of difference between linguistic signs. Pragmatist hermeneutics reconstructs meaning through an indefinite triangulation, which brings symbols, icons, and indices to bear on each other and considers a meaningful occasion as an embodied semiotic process. To illuminate the word-body-action nexus, the discussion identifies three basic types of signifying media: (1) the symbolicdiscursive, (2) the somatic-affective, and (3) the behavioral-performative, each one marked by a special relationship between signs and their objects. An argument is made that the tension between various type-signifying media is unavoidable, that the pragmatic-discursive misalignment is an ontological condition, and that bridging the gap between our discursive, affective, and behavioral outputs is at the heart of ethical life. Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir.... Friedrich Nietzsche The key to a personal poetic attitude of a philosopher is not to be sought in his ideas, as if it could be deduced from them, but rather in his philosophy-as-life, in his philosophical life, his ethos.

Reading and writing have become the predominant way of acquiring and expressing intellect in Western culture. Somewhere along the way, the ability to write has become completely identified with intellectual power, creating a graphocentric myopia concerning the very nature and transfer of knowledge. One of the effects of graphocentrism is a conflation of concepts proper to knowledge in general with concepts specific to written expression. The words ‘literate ’ and ‘literacy ’ themselves are a simple case: their connotations sometimes focus on the process of reading text and sometimes on the kinds of knowledge that happen to be associated in our culture with people who read many books. This thesis has a conceptual and an empirical component. On the conceptual side a central task is to disengage certain concepts that have become conflated by defining new terms. Our vocabulary is insufficient to describe alternatives that serve some or all of the functions of writing and reading in a different modality. As a first step, I introduce a new

This thesis examines a conversation about abortion that occurred within the Usenet newsgroup "talk.abortion" between April 1, 1994 and March 31, 1995. It tests the hypothesis that the form of discourse fostered by computer mediated discussion provides opportunities to expand the informal zone of the public sphere. Specific criteria by which a public sphere can be evaluated for its goodness of fit with the idealized public sphere described by Habermas are proposed and applied to the ongoing conversation. The conversation analyzed consisted of nearly 46,000 messages written by almost three thousand authors in nearly 8,500 different threads. The public sphere created by the participants in the newsgroup was found to be diverse and reciprocal, but lacking in equality and quality. Equality, achieved with equal distribution of voice among the speakers, was not found in the newsgroup conversation, as participation was highly concentrated among a few participants. Quality, measured by the ten...

A so-called literary turn in social sciences in general and in organization studies in particular has resulted in re-discovering the narrative knowledge in organization theory and practice. Organization researchers watching the stories being made and distributed collect organizational stories and provoke story telling in their contacts with the field of practice. This paper takes up the variety of ways of reading such narratives, classifying them into the three steps delineated in the hermeneutic triad: explication, explanation, and exploration. Explication raises the issues of interpretation and overinterpretation; and finds different solutions in pragmatist vs. traditional hermeneutic theory of interpretation. Explanation has a wide range of techniques and approaches to offer, from structuralism through poststructuralism to deconstruction. Narratology is of help also in the last stage, exploration, offering reflection concerning the construction of the researcher's own story by genre analysis etc. The paper ends in a review of most common attitudes towards text analysis: text as the key to the world, text-as-world, texts in the world (science as conversation). The ever-present narrative The narratives of the world are numberless. Narrative is first and foremost a prodigious variety of genres, themselves distributed amongst different substances -- as though any material were fit to receive man's stories. Able to be carried by articulated language, spoken or written, fixed or moving images, gestures, and the ordered mixture of all these substances; narrative is present in myth, legend, fable, tale, novella, epic, history, tragedy, drama, comedy, mime, painting . . . stained glass windows, cinema, comics, news item, conversation. Moreover, under this almost infinite dive...

There is a growing sense that knowledge management, to be most effective, must address questions of knowledge creation and innovation in organisational contexts. Therefore, knowledge management needs to develop more sophisticated and epistemological orientations towards knowledge, (1) realising how knowledge is socially embedded and constructed and (2) how individuals acquire this knowledge, i.e., how they learn. In short, we conceive the frontier of knowledge management, managing knowing, as the result of the dynamics of socially constructed environments. Our project calls for an interdisciplinary approach, bridging epistemologies, and for including insights from other fields into IS. We look at experiential learning, which has been studied in depth in the field of social psychology, as a way of enlarging our understanding of knowledge management. By connecting experiential learning and managing knowing, we see more clearly the conceptual issues at the frontiers of knowledge management. Finally, we describe a research agenda incorporating this methodology to explore the questions surrounding experiential learning in a world going digital. 1.