ABSTRACT

In this work I have tried to show how relationships are constructed and developed. Teaching, learning, and science are all fundamentally about relationships between people and between people and things. These relationships are developed, they change and evolve over time, as an interplay between those involved (both animate and inanimate), as each side of the relationship is affected by the other. Relationships begin with statements (implicit or explicit) of assumptions and of purposes. As the relationships alter, assumptions are challenged and changed, and purposes grow and shift direction.