Reflecting Gergen: The Ontological Positioning Of Scholars

Reflecting Gergen The ontological positioning of scholars

Sociocultural perspective Symbolic Interactionism Vygotsky

Gergen

Situated cognition

Pragmatism

Bakhtin

German Idealism Scottish Moralists

Privileging of the social

Individualism

Socrates

Descartes

Plato Aristotle

Dualist Ontology

Let’s ponder over these questions  

Are you comfortable with the visual representation? Which quadrant will you put these scholars?  Dewey  Geertz,

Bourdieu and Holland  Hayakawa  Wertsch and Linell  Postman, Lemke and Ellsworth

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What questions would be of interest to you as consequences from this exercise of positioning scholars?

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These are my questions:  Is

this right to position scholars in this way?  Is Gergen creating enough wave to spark off the Second Enlightenment?  Is Gergen looking towards the East now?  Are his ideas really new?  Must the concept of binary be taken out from our dictionary?

Tyvm!