Changing Context as a decentered center

I think the key to getting this is making sense of this first paragogical principle is the decentered center part. Think of it as a surfer riding his board on a wave. The surfer and the board are peers: human may control wood, but neither works without eachother. The "deceneted center" then is the water.

The surfer may be comfortable at a certain level of h2o force "context center", but (it isn't necessary to have tried surfing [as I have, failing badly] to get this metaphor, btw) the center is always changing, or its "decentered". Too much and either peer can fail: surfer falling or board snapping. Too little and there won't be enough energy for the surfer to stand up. If conditions are apropos and the surfer/board combo can handle the changing context as a decentered center, i.e. the constantly shifting state of the water, surfing can be done. If more surfer/board combos, or peers, join then the possibilities for surfing or learning and a given beach increase exponentially. Consider all the art being made at Waikiki beach in Honolulu on an ideal spring morning.

Moving from metaphor to theoretical example, consider students getting together in a library to form a study group for their neuropsychology class as I did Sophomore year. We had different roles in the study group and points of leadership. A friend of mine who did well on the first test (I did not.) was more the surfer and myself the board. There was another friend/peer (surfer metaphor breaks down a little here, but roll with it) and our decentered center was the library. We had a vague idea of what we wanted to accomplish: high grades on the next morning's test, but no clear road to how to get there (this was our first time studying together). Going through our notes, flash cards, textbook and more we somehow learned together, and for the next test I received a candy reward for having the 2nd highest improvement in score from the first to second test. My peers did about as well as they did the first time round.