Martyn Krügel
  • Martyn Krügel
About
Greetings and welcome,

My name is Martyn Krügel and I thank you for dropping by. I created this page to serve as an introduction and a portal to direct visitors to my work. I’m a teacher of LOGOS who's fascinated with the fields of language, information, meaning, consciousness, and being. In my younger years I studied and taught music and I also spent close to a year in a Buddhist seminary where I wrestled a bit with philosophy and this wrestling has never stopped. 

More recently I showed a few schools in Bangkok how when we utilize language we engage with information on two levels. On one level we engage with language information in the concrete where language is made perceptible on a surface level for it to be perceived, and on another level we engage with language information in the abstract where the meaning a language conveys is to be conceptualized in thought for an understanding of that meaning to be ascertained. This is an important distinction to be aware of in a learning environment because the value that powers knowledge is not embedded in the perceptible surface information, the value that powers knowledge is to be found in the abstract meaning information.

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The aforementioned may appear to be strikingly obvious, however, in numerous learning environments in Thailand ranging from kindergarten all the way through to university it is often the case that a much higher degree of value is placed on the perceptible surface information resulting in too many cases where a consideration of the abstract meaning information is completely discarded. It is this phenomenon that gives cause to the widespread practice of memorization and replication of merely visual and auditory surface information that if deeply ingrained, produces a sort of calcification of the mind.  Unfortunately, if a contemplation of the abstract meaning information of an idea to be learned never occurred, since attention was primarily and forcefully directed to the surface information only, an understanding of that idea wouldn't be able to occur and where an understanding of an idea wasn't reached, the knowledge of that idea will remain unattained.   

Now the remedy for this particular problem is as simple as engaging the learner in a meaning-making process and the work that I have done to which the links in this portal point to will elucidate how this process can be stimulated in practice.  However, and lamentably so, today's learning environments are all shaped and pillared by a whole slew of interests and for those who can see the abstract meaning information that gives form to these interests, such a seer will see and come to know that not every interest upholding a learning environment is a pillar that can bear the weight of knowledge. 

For a closer inspection of my work and to gain a sense of how I battle the sinister patterns giving form to  inverted orders, please follow the links provided throughout this page.  If you have any questions or in need of a helpful and honest hand, please do not hesitate to contact me.
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I’d be delighted to be of service to anyone who needs a philosophical pondering of the creative and practical kind.

Background Information: 
Here’s a little infographic shedding some light on how it is I stumbled upon the road that I have traveled.


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My Projects
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During 2018 I created a virtual office called Mr. Martyn's Office to serve as a platform from where I can launch findings comprising insights and solutions –to be launched into the INFOSPHERE– that may be helpful to the project of education in Thailand.

Presenting these findings posed a considerable challenge because the only vantage point I could find from where solutions could be recognized was at the epicenter of a peculiar problem, which is the problem I alluded to in my opening remarks.  To pave the way to this locale, I crafted an inquiry that journeys beneath the surface of language information on a pilgrimage in search of meaning.

MEANING is important in learning because by forming a conceptualization of an idea, an idea can be internalized and by acquainting oneself with the MEANING of an idea a conceptualization of that idea can be formed and so the knowledge one may be in pursuit of can be internalized.
My inquiry is entitled: A LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE ~ AN INQUIRY INTO MEANING.  The first three segments of this inquiry can be found in Room 1 of my virtual office.

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Room 1: Presented here is the first part of a detailed examination that includes a proposition in answer to the question: How can we assist a bilingual student in primary school learning a subject like mathematics in English in Thailand?
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Room 2: Presented here is a record of my digital archive comprising videos, photos, documents and materials I saved from my educational research and development work.
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Room 3: Presented here are mosaics and videos of
work samples produced by bilingual Thai students learning mathematics in English in
Grades 4 and 5.

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I conducted and displayed my research and development work from this office that I set up.
During 2017 I compiled an INFORMATION REPORT outlining the journey I undertook that led to a practical methodology for putting a syllabus into operation in a mimetic learning environment where attention needs to be drawn to the abstract meaning information of ideas.  It gives an in-depth account of my research and development work, including detailed analyses of work samples completed in bilingual mathematics classrooms.  To view this report, please follow the link.
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Photo mosaic by: mrmartynsoffice @ Mosaically
Between 2007 and 2009 I compiled a series of seven music instruction books called Martyn Krügel’s Bass Manual.  This bass manual serves as an atlas by depicting the patterns of music theory on the four-string bass guitar.  To view this project or to download the books, please follow the link.         
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 Notes on Notes on Notes...
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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
~ Carl G. Jung

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My Portfolio
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Information Report
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PDF Library

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Information Report
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My Writings
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I’m an outsider –not by choice, by banishment for dispensing LOGOS–
who likes to learn and I like to help other people learn by fine-tuning and enhancing OUR natural learning abilities.

With fine-tuned learning machines running on intelligence expansion WE can give form to knowledge.

I’d be delighted to be of service to anyone who needs a philosophical pondering of the creative and practical kind.

Logos makes the darkness conscious.
Logos makes the darkness light.

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