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               %LIBERATION OF TECHNICAL SPECIALISTS 801211

     The  more narrow is the focus of specialization of  a
person, the more likely it is that such a person will need
to  reach  outside the sub-culture  of  specialization  to
receive   liberating   insights.    Each  sub-culture   of
specialization   has  a  tendency  to  promote   technical
specialization which focuses upon the techniques which are
highly valued by the sub-culture.   The more narrow is the
focus  of  attention  in  such  specialization---the  more
likely  it is to exclude from  consideration  experiences,
insights,   relationships,   concepts,   etc.   which  are
essential  to being free  to participate  meaningfully  in
humane dialogue and cooperative activities.

     These considerations are especially important to  the
teachers  of any specialized techniques.   To acquire  the
competency in  techniques which is expected of them---such
persons often narrow their focus of attention so much that
they   become   insensitive  to  the  signs   that   their
relationships  with their students are unhealthy and  even
violent.   The more narrow is the focus of such  teachers,
the  more  likely it is that such teachers  will  need  to
reach   outside  their  profession  of  specialization  to
receive  the insights which will set them free to be  more
effective teachers.  Intensification of affirmation of the
narrow  values  of their profession will only confirm  the
exclusion  of  the  insights which are  essential  to  the
improvement  of their instructional activities.   Only  as
such  specialists come to recognize the hazards  of  over-
specialization---can  they consider the  possibility  that
they need to accept help from outside their sub-culture of
specialization.

     When   specialists  seek  to  be  in  dialogue   with
complementary   specialists  they  are  most   likely   to
experience  the difficulties which are  characteristic  of
any  effort  to communicate  across  cultural  boundaries.
Differences  in  assumptions,   role  models,    language,
expectations,   experiences,   etc.  make  dialogue  quite
difficult.    The more highly specialized are the  persons
involved,   the  less  likely it is that  they  will  have
commonalties  in terms of which to develop  understanding.
Thus,   even  when  specialists are earnestly  seeking  to
understand   each   other,   they  are   bound   to   have
difficulties.  Often   specialists  have  no  interest  in
seeking  to understand  each other,  and are thus bound to
have even greater difficulties in dealing with each other.

                                                                                                                               
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