Mark Oehlert introduces us to the work of David Shaffer, another researcher who desperately needs a blog, an RSS feed, that will get the word out. Oehlert recommends some of his papers, but I started at the top of the list and landed on this one, an outstanding excursion into the realm of microworld, epistemic frames, subcultures and the educational philosophy og John Dewey. There are numerous insights in thsi paper worth reporting: the importance of diversity in learning and society, the role different educational goals ought to play in a theory of education, autoexpressive virtual worlds, and so much more. This gets to the heart of much of my own thinking: "Practice, identity, values, knowledge, and epistemology, I have argued, are bound together into an epistemic frame... epistemic frames are the ways of knowing with associated with particular communities of practice."
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