As I was writing up http://connect.nmmu.ac.za/Blogs/Developing-and-Testing-An-Applied-Applied-Dialecti/July-2014/Values-and-morals-as-standards-of-judgement; http://connect.nmmu.ac.za/Blogs/Developing-and-Testing-An-Applied-Applied-Dialecti/July-2014/Meaningful-life ; http://connect.nmmu.ac.za/Blogs/Developing-and-Testing-An-Applied-Applied-Dialecti/July-2014/Middle-East-problems
My friend sent me a picture, that I am attaching here, of the sign held by two young Jewish Israeli girls. He said he took it off twitter it was twitted by an Israeli girl ,University of Jerusalem.
If he means the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, then he means the best University in Israel and where I did my graduate work in theoretical and critical humanistic and dialectical psychology of the human subject. On the other hand, the University is now on the Summer holiday. The students are away.
I am including here extracts from a piece I wrote for TreboilPress
at http://trebolpress.com/2013/10/alon-serpers-review-of-a-terrible-case-of-beauty-by-lynn-cohen/
It is relevant to this day and the escalation that now includes my own city of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa and my family and friends
My theorized applied dialectical method is based on reflective and dialogical enquiries into the question, How do live a more meaningful life? and how do we form a greater democracy of and for all in dignity, humanity, wellbeing, growth and empowerment and equality?
Who decides what is a meaningful life? based on what?
Values are perceived as epistemological standards of judgement by many approaches to action and practitioner research within the action researcher's knowledge of his/her practice being perceived as the account's unit of appraisal based on Polanyi's tacit knowledge.
This is a big problem for the methodological approach and epistemology that needs to be discussed and problematised