Let's Launch !!!
It is with great pleasure (and relief) that I launch Wittgenstein-On-Learning.Com -- a Wittgensteinian view of language, literacy and learning.
Whilst not everything is exactly in place, the core design and content will all be falling into place over the coming weeks. The site's welcome page is in place. The glossary is fleshed out. The readings are healthy. And the notes within key topics are drafted and will be rolled into the site gradually.
Visitors should find lots of stuff here, and visitors should have reasons to return with regular updates to be made to the journal and on Twitter. There are even plans to add a podcast, though that will need to wait for the moment.
The bigger question is, "who will/should visit the site? And why?" These are the most important questions for me to address in this entry.
A Wittgensteinian view of language, literacy and learning recognises that people are transformed through learning (and by what is learnt). When we learn a language, and when we develop a literacy, and when we work with numbers, we acquire tools in the community and a capacity to participate (to fulfil a form life in the stream of living).
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