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  • From: Victor Lombardi <victor AT victorlombardi.com>
  • To: "list_aifia-education" <aifia-education AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Aifia-education] Education is not about content
  • Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:13:15 -0500

This is getting a little clearer in my head through our discussion. Perhaps when we talk about this subject we should make a distinction among competencies, methodologies, and philosophy. A competency, for example, is being able to perform card sorts. A methodology is the how a competency is taught. A philosophy explains why certain methodologies and competencies are chosen.

For example, the Bauhaus was a radically different school of design. They embraced simplicity and mass production in their philosophy. It follows their methodology would embrace collaboration with industry. None of this excused a chair designer from understanding the properties of metal and wood or the graphic designer the limitations of the printing press, which are competencies.

So to get back to my original question, it seems everyone agrees we should "aim higher than conveying content and skills as something we could or should do as instructors of IA." And yet I don't think we have much agreement on the basic competencies required.

Victor Lombardi
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On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Livia Labate wrote:

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I don't know if this little story is of any help, but I think teaching IA
has a lot to do with making people understand their value and what they can
achieve; just showing them how important they are to make things happen, as
IA is to make projects happen.





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