Posted by Rob Patzig on February 03, 1998 at 11:32:47:

In Reply to: Re: On Structure vs. Edge of Chaos posted by Tom Sudman on February 03, 1998 at 10:23:57:

Remarkably, this is ultimately what Friere does. In one case
he worked with an entirely illiterate agricultural community in
S. America. Working with them they learned written letters and
then created for themselves and as a group "spellings"
for the various objects in their lives. They named the world
around them. From this point, they then quickly learned the
naming conventions of the dominant cultures and became capable of
speaking back. Their literacy became an important political tool.

Also, I wonder if knowledge management could learn a great
deal from language theory. Language is nothing if not the
explication of tacit knowledge. It is a medium through which
communities of learning share knowledge and it creates CoPs too.
Even more interesting, perhaps, is that language, the tool of the
explicit, allows for a common framework in which new tacit and
explicit knowledge can arise. When I think of language and the
process of making the tacit explicit and, sometimes the explicit
tacit, I picture the Uroboros of the alchemists (the serpent
consuming itself that's become a part of pulp culture throught
the television show "Millenium").

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