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Part 2: Chapter 11
Towards a
science of knowledge systems
August 16, 2002
Purpose of the chapter
The author’s unpublished paper on converting knowledge ecology to knowledge economy will be rewritten to reflect the themes in the Question of Access.
The point will be made that the
learned helplessness with respect to learning basic arithmetic is an impediment
to knowledge sharing in social systems.
The First Chapters develop the
hypothesis that a type of learned most students in the pre-college education
acquire learned helplessness. This
learned helplessness is specific to mathematics and science, but the effects of
the learned helplessness are distributed throughout the mental image of
self.
The hypothesis is very
controversial; of course the author recognizes this. However, the first five Chapters of the book “Question of Access”
will forcefully develop the research literatures and evidence that the authors
feels is justified.
A type of “gentle enlightenment”
is required so that a individual human who has mathematics anxiety will be able
to come to a positive resolution about self worth. The enlightenment is of the form:
“I understand now why I cam to fear even the simplest of
arithmetic.”
The goal of the book is to set the
intellectual stage for this personal enlightenment.
These notes are formative
towards Prueitt’s new book on learning theory.
We expect that the
book will be developed over the next four months.
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