ABSTRACT

In this chapter I shall be considering the nature of process as structure. At first sight, process and structure might seem to appear as opposites, like considering movement as static, or stasis as moving. I do not see the ideas as contradictory: rather, in dialectical fashion, I will attempt to show that the notions are complementary and interdependent. I will explain my view that process may become structure, and that structure is inherently mobile and is also part of a wider process: and I will continue to explain that epistemology-the functional ideas base for practice, traditionally associated with process-may become the object of study-a structure; and that educational practice, usually viewed as an object, is inherently developmental and should be regarded as process.