Researcher Observation
These observations connected with the concept of Plato's ‘tether’, as
students were being encouraged to tie their experiential knowledge
and feelings (true beliefs) to theory through reflection, thus legitimising
them within an educational culture traditionally dominated by
propositional knowledge. Teachers also acknowledged reflection as
an academic skill, suggesting that educationalists valued the affective
and practical side of knowing as well as the propositional. This
resonated with Schon's (1987) critique of technical rationality, where
he was not suggesting that propositional knowing should be discarded
by professionals, but rather should be embellished by different ways of
knowing.