[Xmca-l] Re: Sociocritical Literacies and more context

[rjsp2]

Can I piggyback a request on this one about collective zoped. i've been
thinking lately about the possible relationship between zoped and
"comfort zone" - is there any work on that?

Rob

On 30/12/2014 18:43, Luisa Aires wrote:
> I absolutely agree, Michael. My approach is proximal to what you consider
> "to think of it as re-search in a more literal sense, to go through the
> process of finding again". But sometimes, we need to catch more
> conventional words to create common understandings ;-)
>
> Mike, I am wondering to find more information about colletive zoped. Where
> can we find it?
>
> Best,
> Luísa
>
> 2014-12-30 17:03 GMT+00:00 Glassman, Michael <glassman.13@osu.edu>:
>
>> Are either research techniques at all in the traditional sense?  And do we
>> kind of confuse things by using the traditional phrase to describe it.
>> Research in traditional academics is done to know and change might some day
>> come from knowledge.  Are approaches like "testimonios" and "narratives of
>> life experience" done more to change, and change will lead to a new type of
>> knowing.  Is it better to think of it as re-search in a more literal sense,
>> to go through the process of finding again.
>>
>> Michael
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>> [xmca-l-bounces+glassman.13=osu.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu] on behalf of Luisa
>> Aires [laires11@gmail.com]
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>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Sociocritical Literacies and more context
>>
>> Hi Manuel
>>
>> Thank for your enlightening post.
>> Is it correct to state that "testimonios" and "narratives of life
>> experience" are synonymous research techniques?
>>
>> Best,
>> Luísa A.
>>
>> 2014-12-30 0:53 GMT+00:00 Espinoza, Manuel <Manuel.Espinoza@ucdenver.edu>:
>>
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> Hope this note finds you all well.  Just adding to the conversation on
>>> literacies, social dreaming, the Migrant Program at UCLA (I was one of
>> many
>>> that served the students during the early 2000s) and testimonio.
>>>
>>> The idea of testimonio as an aspect of the "concrete" is cool.  To my
>>> mind, within that realm of really rich Soviet/Russian thinking,
>> testimonio
>>> can be thought of as one way that human beings  remake social life guided
>>> by intellect and heart.  (Think of what testimonio accomplished in the
>>> context of 1980s Central America or mid-1990s South Africa.)  But the
>> idea
>>> of testimonio as an aspect of the "abstract" seems right on as well.
>>> Testimonio is also meaningful and comprehensive thought that explains
>>> reality better than what we had before.  Testimonio in the Migrant
>> Program
>>> seemed to be both.  Thus, as the beloved Rusos teach us, you can ascend
>> to
>>> both abstract and concrete.
>>>
>>> I think about the time and effort that went into creating the
>>> autobiographies (a form of testimonio) that Profe Gutiérrez references.
>>> They were a culmination for us as a scholarly community.  And they left
>>> people altered.  (Another cool insight inspired by Hegel and Marx - when
>>> humans learn, they become altered matter.  Living, breathing matter,
>>> capable of experiencing.  And in the words of Piaget, I believe,
>>> experiencing our experiences.)  The versatility, the many facets of
>>> testimonio are beautiful to ruminate on.  Given my life experience, I
>>> rejoice in thinking about the ways that testimonio - bearing witness to
>>> life via narrative - can give historical depth to a person's actions, to
>> a
>>> community's actions.
>>> To illustrate, I remember putting together the reader for the program.
>> We
>>> would stay all night in Moore Hall with making copies and feeling
>> energized
>>> in thinking about migrant families sending their high school-aged
>> children
>>> to reside and study with us for a month.  The way I pictured those
>> families
>>> - and this is key for people like Marx Wartofsky who cared deeply about
>> the
>>> actual look of our imaginations - was through a long corridor of
>>> experience.  It was just me at 2am extending the look down the hallway,
>> but
>>> instead of a wall at the far end, I pictured families I knew, and
>> imagined
>>> the ones I didn't know.  I could see them and they could see me.  Our
>> work
>>> was similar in that instant: preparing the way for the youth.  At times,
>> it
>>> was incredibly vivid, but that grew over time and through the many
>>> testimonios we fostered and experienced.  Even the testimonio requires
>>> witness for it to live on.  (See: Carolyn Forché  and her "poetry of
>>> witness.")  And that, too, had to be learned to an extent.  Who showed
>> me?
>>> Hector Álvarez, Carlos Tejeda, Profe Gutiérrez, Miguel Zavala, Shirin
>>> Vossoughi, the migrant parents, and others.  Now, that was a scholarly
>>> community.
>>>
>>> Forgive the somewhat long message.  I been looking to post for years, but
>>> in the words of the Ents from Middle Earth, I wanted to say something
>> that
>>> took time to say.  See you again in 2018 :)
>>>
>>> Respetuosamente,
>>>
>>> Manuel Luis Espinoza
>>>
>>>
>>> Manuel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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>> Centre of Studies on Migrations and Intercultural Relations (CEMRI)
>> R. Amial, nº 752, 4200-055 Porto, Portugal
>> laires@uab.pt
>> www.uab.pt
>>
>>
>

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