Once again, I ran into a wall in scientific thinking.
During my PhD I suggested constructive alignment to a die-hard anti-positivist professor of education. It turns out, that she had her reasons to be pessimistic but she did not share them.
Six years later I suggested a rationalist contraption to a die-hard pragmatist political science professor. He, of course, disregarded them as idealistic, and did not share the reasons.
In both cases, it felt like I was not worthy to swing this particular hammer. This, of course, is true.
In both cases, the projects were inter-disciplinary. Interestingly, in each discipline there are are traditions that are much closer to each other then to their neighbours within their own faculty.
It seems, that methodological issues dictate scientific walls much more then a community of shared problems and topics.
