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Praxis: the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted or practiced. A new word to learn. I had to ask the native brainiac, then I had to look it up too.



Praxis is also a word used by educators to describe a recurring passage through a cyclical process of experimental learning.

Ahem.


More simply put it means doing something, and then only afterwards, finding out why you did it. Perhaps I should stop everything and rename this blog.

Dr. Mike Tracey's article in the Journal of Media Practice, writing of his experience along with David Mills, the London-based film maker and early years education researcher Tracey co-produced three documentaries about the murder of JonBenet Ramsey--

"From theory to praxis and back:
a commentary on making television and related issues"

Available at Intellect.