Philosophical mumbo jumbo

I just finished reading an article for class tomorrow and I was quite surprised at one of the articles that my instructor picked for us to read. It was all about conceptual confusion in educational psychology and how psychologists fall prey to fallacies, such as reification of constructs. Yada, yada (which is code for the fact that I'm not going to attempt to explain that statement). Instead, I left the reading with one of those philosophical gushy feelings of floating on air. I'm feeling this way because the article questioned fundamental assumptions that we make as a field. But, we are so close to our work that we cannot step back far enough to notice the assumptions we have made, which are supposedly based on fallacies.

Really, the only way out seems to be to recognize that "cognition" is "situated" in "context." Is it me, or does that statement sound like just another post-modern fad that the field is taking? But, all that does is restate the simple adage that "multiple variables contribute to an outcome" in a much more eloquent manner couched in a philosophical discussion. And just last week the practically-minded educator in our class made the very same statement couched in simplistic verbiage regarding the act of teaching.

But, I doubt that half the class is going to understand this paper (read: neither do I). Sigh...