[Xmca-l] Re: PDF Document Sociocultural and Feminist Theory_ Mutuality and Relevance.pdf

[Jacob McWilliams]

Thanks, Greg--it was nice to see you at the panel, and I'm glad the session
felt interesting--and hopefully also useful.

The book is Power and Privilege in the Learning Sciences: Critical and
Sociocultural Theories, and it's co-edited by Indigo Esmonde and Angela
Booker (both cc'ed on this message). My chapter, co-written with Bill
Penuel, is an argument for advancing queer theory in the learning sciences;
other chapters focus on frameworks like Critical Race Theory, feminist
theory, critical geography, critical technology studies, and so on.

It's a really exciting project, and one that I think is sorely needed.



-- 


Jacob McWilliams
Educational Psychology and Learning Sciences Program
University of Colorado Boulder
j.mcwilliams@colorado.edu
http://www.jennamcwilliams.com


On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> At AERA a few weeks back I saw a panel with Jacob McWilliams on it that was
> dealing with these very issues that you mention here Mike as you quote and
> "hear here" Phillip's comments.
>
> The talks on the panel that Jacob was on were, as I understand it, chapters
> of an upcoming book that will be edited by Angela Booker and ???. I fear
> I've forgotten some of the details but I do remember the panel being one of
> the best panels I attended at AERA this year.
>
> Jacob, or perhaps someone else familiar with the book: could you fill in
> the details here? Who is the co-editor (or co-editors)? What is the name of
> the volume?
>
> Any other details would be greatly appreciated (anticipated publication
> date? Perhaps a list of authors if it isn't too premature).
>
> Thanks,
> greg
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 4:23 PM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hear hear, Phillip!
> >
> > Who wrote:
> >
> > i read this conclusion as a call for those scholars studying mind,
> culture
> > and activity to actively collaborate with critical theorists, critical
> race
> > theorist, queer theorists, so that, as Helena Worthem is advocating, our
> > work can be closer to the bone of contemporary events.
> > The editors of MCA, I think it is safe to say, will welcome first class
> > articles that do exactly this.
> >
> > mike
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:01 PM, White, Phillip <
> > Phillip.White@ucdenver.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > greetings, everyone.  i can only image that the participants of xmca
> have
> > > been waiting with baited breath to hear the results of my gefilte fish
> > for
> > > last friday's seder - and i can only repeat, so that you know that i'm
> > not
> > > fishing for compliments, that the gentleman in his late seventies who
> was
> > > seated next to me (my son's mother-in-law's cousin's husband) said,
> "This
> > > gefilte fish is better than my Kiev born grandmother, and she was a
> great
> > > cook!"
> > >
> > > however, to join in the swim or current postings, Vera's conclusion is
> > > quite to the point, so that i'm pasting it in here:
> > >
> > > "In the beginning of this chapter, I suggested that traditional
> > > psychological and economic
> > > models of human agents as lone, competitive actors are losing
> influence.
> > > Increasingly, interdependence between persons is recognized as central
> to
> > > individual and societal functioning. Both cultural-historical and
> > feminist
> > > theorists place the social sources of development, or
> "self-in-re1ation"
> > as
> > > central within their framework. There are shared themes and
> > > complementarity, as well as different emphases across these two groups
> of
> > > theorists. Feminists' concerns with developmental and relational
> dynamics
> > > are not explicitly shared by scholars studying mind, culture and
> > activity.
> > > However, in looking for areas of mutuality , we broaden our ways of
> > > knowing, and, in the process, may construct a new synthesis between
> > thought
> > > and motive, and cognition and emotion."
> > >
> > > i read this conclusion as a call for those scholars studying mind,
> > culture
> > > and activity to actively collaborate with critical theorists, critical
> > race
> > > theorist, queer theorists, so that, as Helena Worthem is advocating,
> our
> > > work can be closer to the bone of contemporary events.
> > >
> > > phillip
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > It is the dilemma of psychology to deal as a natural science with an
> object
> > that creates history. Ernst Boesch
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
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>