ABSTRACT
Editors' Notes: We begin with some personal observations by JCC: It was a delight to read Marlene and Carl's contribution, for many reasons. Most poignantly, it was a reminder of those discussions attempting to reconcile similarities and differences between FCL and Knowledge Forum (KF) / Knowledge Building (KB). I certainly recall being involved in those discussions. I also remember clearly being a more peripheral participant in several others. A typical example: Phone rings, I answer and talk for a while, then, “Ann, it's Marlene.” It would now be possible for me to leave, go shopping, have dinner, clean up, etc., content that I would not be missed for quite a while. More often, however, I would hang around to listen to snippets of the conversation and to observe smiles, laughter, and head-shaking occurring at frequent intervals. The discussions were interesting and motivating. They served to make us all think more deeply about the enterprise in which we were engaged and where differences existed. After all, “the devil is in the details”, and it was those details that we thought essential to understand and explain. The discussions forced us to focus as well as we could on just those details and to try to understand them for ourselves, hence to communicate them to others: peers, teachers, students, administrators, etc. While Ann and Marlene never reached complete agreement, it was clear that both enjoyed the task and learned (built knowledge?) from it.
