Joining research & practice 11/14

Perhaps it is because my focus has been on other work (881 mini review & tour topic) over the last few weeks that I could not get that excited about the two readings today. While I found the visual interface article interesting it failed to spark any new thoughts/perspectives. Likewise for Dervin's comments which - despite being laid out in easy to digest propositions, seemed rambling.

Having spent the last two weeks reading about educational psychology, teaching methodologies, and their answers to information seeking/use/learning questions I am left agreeing with Dervin's assertion that the split in sociology based fields is undermining the efforts and credibility of researchers and work. Why does IS literature not mention any of the psychologists & philosophers that the Education field does (and vice versa)? The perspectives of Piaget, Bruner, Vygotsky, and Dewey seem to lay the foundation that Bates, Dervin, Chatman, Kulthau and Belkin use in formulating their models. Why isn't there any cross-over? The education field has taken these concepts and created practical teaching methods (I have concentrated on constructivism and inquiry based learning) from these models. Has the Information Science field gotten that far in using information seeking models to inform search systems?