Chapter 3: 祇園祭: Thoughts on Purification, Liminality, Art, Fermented Shark, Mathematics, and Education for Creativity

This chapter is about purification and liminality, and is presented in a stream of consciousness form. It was inspired by a paper by Eva Jablonka and Christer Bergsten (2010) in which they attempt what I shall describe as a purification of the category theory in mathematics education. My chapter consists of illustrative responses to a range of different kinds of texts. It will recruit analytic schemes from my organizational language, social activity method (SAM), and also will introduce new schemes relating to productive action and education for creativity; initially in dance, but then directed at other areas, including mathematics. The tide of the chapter remains in its pure, Japanese form. Although (unlike the neologism that’s coming up) easy enough to translate via the limination of the world wide web, but does it really matter? In this instance, this expression merely identifies the chapter. (I have, on second thought, appended a parenthetic subtitle to trap the search engines.)