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“I wanted to know what it was so badly…”

“This is what is feels like inside the tube.

I see this tube at work all the time,

and I’ve never felt inside it. I assumed I knew it.
I thought it was ‘just bamboo’.

But I kept going.

Now I’m glad I did.”

“We consciously need to look for something that
surprises us to push back our predictions.”

The mind is disrupted. It wants to see - to see what it already thinks it knows. - just bamboo. The desire is

intense. But with persistence, fingers keep finding the unfamiliar. It’s an experience of ostranenyi - ‘making things
that seem familiar strange again’. (Bruner, 2002). The actual experience brings theory to life. The
teacher~researchers experience the strong desire to offer the answer - a label - a name.

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