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“Everything is in relation to everything ….
people places and things….”
“To know things, we have to have the world inside us.”
“Materials evoke relationships, connections and meaning.”
“I came to see that listening is much wider - a metaphor for, amongst other values,
openness, sensitivity, time, emotion, welcoming, action and formulating questions.”
We notice that relations between things~objects~materials and the world was changing. The “world” was
becoming the world of the individual and the particular rather than a world of generalised concepts.
Teacher~researchers were identifying, from their own experience, qualities and attitudes within themselves that
generate the process of coming~to~know: courage, time, openness, sensitivity, emotion, welcoming,
questioning…
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