Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Through ideologies ...

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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