This section features the two articles
from this issue of the
Co-Inquiry Journal:
Interchange In Education
Written by Shareen Abramson
Interchange is a communicative act that involves
the negotiation of ideas conveyed in signs and symbols. Throughout
life, meaning grows from interchange as one engages with people, objects,
events and symbolic systems. In this ongoing, dynamic process, sharing
and co-constructing ideas are critical to the discovery of meaning.
Filled with expressing, experiencing, feeling and thinking as well
as inquiry, relationship, commitment, development and learning, interchange
represents the story of a lifetime. For society, the interchanging
of ideas translates into education, commitment to others, cultural
and economic development and innovation.
Like navigating a convolution of LA freeways, living
in a multitude of interchange provides the twists, turns, changes,
complications, elaborations and surprises that make each person’s
journey very special and one-of-a-kind. Relationships facilitate interchange
and are strengthened through regular interchange. In the discourse
of interchange, thoughts are explored, revised and expanded in order
to make sense of ideas and gain new insights. Over time, the process
of interchange deepens understanding of the world, oneself and others
and changes one’s outlook. As a result,
“knowing,” the ultimate goal of interchange, emerges in
the continual negotiation of meaning between the self and other.
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Communicative Literacy: The Standard
for Interchange
Written by Shareen Abramson
The ability to communicate is a birthright. The newborn’s
first cry demonstrates the power of communication. With intense clarity,
the infant’s cry is a message that is open to interpretation.
Experiencing this unforgettable declaration of arrival and in an emotional
state that is beyond words, the parents respond with gestures of comfort
and love as they embrace their new baby with a hug. Thus life’s
primary relationship begins in symbolic expression. Although no words
have been spoken, meaning passes from one to another in physical signs,
the cry and the hug, that are universal and timeless. In this iconic
moment, when new life enters the world, meaning is conveyed through
interchange.
Interchange is a communicative act that involves the
negotiation of meaning using signs and symbols. From birth until the
end of life, interchange with people, objects, events and ideas provokes
the search for meaning that distinguishes human experience. Interchange
of symbolic ideas through dialogue or shared experience is a source
of learning and development. While different, interchange can also
take place between individuals and inanimate objects, phenomena or
cultural symbols. For example reading a book, viewing a work of art
or experiencing the beauty of the nature can precipitate new insights.
In all its innumerable forms, including verbal and written, language,
gesture, music, visual media, etc., interchange represents a dynamic
interplay of ideas communicated in signs and symbols that must be interpreted
to discover meaning.
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