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<DIV>Well said. I particularly like the emphasis on re-imagining and recreating
the worlds in which we live as ‘an ongoing process of learning to be otherwise’.
This does not seem to me at all ‘wildly utopian’ (6), but rather pragmatically
utopian, in keeping with John Dewey’s understanding of ends as ‘foreseen
consequences which arise in the course of activity and which are employed to
give activity added meaning and to direct its further course’ (J. Dewey, ‘The
Nature of Aims’, in R.D. Archambault ed., *John Dewey on Education'*, Random
House, 1965, 72) and the authors’ commitment to an open-ended, democratic
pedagogy guided by the grounded utopian philosophy of ‘walking, we ask
questions’ (a topic, by the way, explored by a number of speakers at a recent
Fringe Festival event in Dublin to which I contributed: <A
title=https://soundcloud.com/sorcha-kenny/walking-we-ask-questions-part
href="https://soundcloud.com/sorcha-kenny/walking-we-ask-questions-part">https://soundcloud.com/sorcha-kenny/walking-we-ask-questions-part</A>).
As Paul Goodman once thoughtfully remarked of utopianism, in a world in which
‘experts plan in terms of an unchangeable structure, a pragmatic expediency that
still wants to take the social structure as plastic and changeable comes to be
thought of as “utopian”’. </DIV>
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<DIV>Laurence</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=davidmcaleavey@virginmedia.com
href="mailto:davidmcaleavey@virginmedia.com">David McAleavey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, January 12, 2013 5:40 PM</DIV>
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [SSC] A Practice that Aspires</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Dear All,
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<DIV>As promised.</DIV>
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<DIV>Respectfully yours,</DIV>
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<DIV>David</DIV></DIV>
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