[Xmca-l] Re: The Concepts of CHAT

mike cole mcole@ucsd.edu
Thu Mar 5 13:53:16 PST 2015


Now what to do about that clunky xmca web page?
Any volunteers to provide the proper facilities?
mike

On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is there a website somewhere that these sorts of things can be archived?
> E.g., I just noticed that XMCA's (kinda clunky!) home page has links to
> videos from 2010 and 2008 but nothing more recent.
> http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/
>
> Seems a shame for this link only to appear on Andy's page and in this email
> that will soon be buried...
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> -greg
>
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>
> > In January and February, I delivered 10 lectures on *The Concepts of
> CHAT*
> > in Melbourne.
> > I have edited them up into a series of videos, using the PowerPoint
> > slides, subtitles and audience views to enhance the talking head.
> > Shukla Sikder and Feiyan Chen did a great job in video recording the
> whole
> > thing and the quality is good.
> > The concepts covered are: Action, behaviour and consciousness; Genetic
> > method; unity and dichotomy;  Analysis by units and germ cell;  Word
> > meaning and artefact-mediated action, dual stimulation;  Perezhivanie and
> > catharsis, social situation of development, disability/compensation;
> > Concepts during childhood;  Spontaneous, true and actual concepts; the
> > emotions; Activity: operations, actions and activities; Object of
> activity
> > in Leontyev, Engeström and Vygotsky; Project as unit of social life.
> > The videos and a link to the prescribed reading is at
> > https://vimeo.com/groups/301100/
> >
> > There's 10 hours of video there, so I don't expect reviews from xmca-ers,
> > but anyone teaching CHAT might consider whether it meets some of your
> > needs. I try to confine myself to what I know something about and as
> best I
> > could, stayed away from issues of Psychology and Learning Science of
> which
> > I am ignorant. Just the Concepts.
> >
> > Andy
> > --
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *Andy Blunden*
> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> >
> >
>
>
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> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
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>



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