Through ideologies that the 'normal social
order' lives by, it becomes more and more clear everyday, I live to push
everything that may seem normal to others. Learning today about how
some academics, including Foucault and Kuhn talk about the 'paradigm
shifts' and certain 'eureka' moments where you suddenly have a new idea
or breakthrough, but they choose not to touch the area of 'HOW' this
happens.
Interesting that this is
still something that stays put when it comes to theories, but in the end
I do believe it's to do with INTUITION and in the end how measurable is
intuition? A gut feeling, something that you FEEL? I even brought
intuition up, as it's something that I use daily to structure a
happiness in my life and it was agreed by everyone that it's really
interesting as to why they hadn't researched further and just let it be
that these moments will happen and that paradigm shifting is just
something that occurs without the complete academic understanding or
knowledge (and they thought they knew everything?) I really love that
this is becoming an ideology that underpins Social Work taught at
university, that it's not just theory and practice, AND the reminder
that it WILL take time to build up your skills and 'find your place',
also push for change, push for challenge, push against a social order,
because if you don't, how do we have new theories, new practices?
Instead of JUST spending our time IDOLISING the start of post modern
views/theories.
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