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  1. Dec 2023
    1. A last preliminary word on method: what follows is not to be read as stylistic description, as the account of one cultural style or movement among others. I have rather meant to offer a periodizing hypothesis, and that at a moment in which the very conception of historical periodization has come to seem most problematical indeed. I have argued elsewhere that all isolated or discrete cultural analysis always involves a buried or repressed theory of historical periodization; in any case, the conception of the ‘genealogy’ largely lays to rest traditional theoretical worries about so-called linear history, theories of ‘stages’, and teleological historiography. In the present context, however, lengthier theoretical discussion of such (very real) issues can perhaps be replaced by a few substantive remarks.

      Another beautifully put paragraph.

      Jameson is dealing with the objections, that we encounter too, about creating "periods" (aka stages or phases or paradigms in our onto-social contexts). Because, of course, in any study of cultural phenomena and cultural evolution there are no completely sharp breaks. It is always, at least when zoomed in, evolution rather than revolution.

      But that misses the point. Good theoretical (e.g. dynamical systems theory) and empirical reasons suggest that we do have more discrete changes.

      His second point is that this genealogical not linear. - it is branching and refolding Again of course, though a simplified genealogy is a linear one (e.g. the kings/queens of England).

  2. Aug 2023
    1. many of those empirical claims have been overturned.

      If these claims have been overturned, why are Piaget's stages of development still widely taught and referenced? What am I misunderstanding here?

      Nortje, A. (2023, March 9). Piaget’s stages: 4 stages of Cognitive Development & Theory. PositivePsychology.com. https://positivepsychology.com/piaget-stages-theory/#:~:text=Piaget%20argued%20that%20children’s%20cognitive,changes%2C%20reflecting%20these%20cognitive%20developments.

  3. Feb 2019
  4. Feb 2018
    1. Therefore, Fried's model of social evolution must be viewed as a tendencyrather than a specific sequence of stages through which every coherent community of people must pass

      This seems important to note!

  5. Aug 2017
  6. Jul 2017
    1. he Three Stages of Backward DesignThe UbD framework offers a three-stage backward design process for curriculum planning, and includes a template and set of design tools that embody the process. A key concept in UbD framework is align-ment (i.e., all three stages must clearly align not only to standards, but also to one another). In other words, the Stage 1 con-tent and understanding must be what is assessed in Stage 2 and taught in Stage 3.