[Xmca-l] Re: Identity through "experiential texts"

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One suggestion (The Sociocultural Turn in Psychology The Contextual Emergence of Mind and Self) by Jack Martin and Suzanne Kirschner.
Describes 5 models  (including cultural historical) in a general context of cultural psychology. 

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From: Greg Thompson
Sent: July 28, 2016 1:14 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Identity through "experiential texts"

Some suggestions, one popular and a few academic.

Popular: The Butterfly Effect (movie starting Ashton Kusher)

Academic, more accessible: Stanton Wortham's essay The Heterogenously
Distributed Self

Academic, middling: Hyang-Jin Jung's book Learning to be an Individual:
Emotion and Person in an American Junior High School

Academic, more difficult: Vincent Colapietro's book Peirce's Approach to
the Self: A Semiotic Perspective

Academic, much more difficult: Karl Marx's Chapter 1 of the Grundrisse.
This seems to me to be a fundamental articulation of the project (although
it helps to read something of Smith's Wealth of Nations prior to this - but
might not hurt to balance that with Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments,
esp. the "looking glass theory of the self" later developed by Charles
Cooley... that reminds me that Goffman's Presentation of Self in Everyday
Life is a classic piece that can do a lot of work, and Mead's I/me
distinction as confused as it is can get students thinking about the
thoroughly social nature of the self). Also, Marx's Economic and
Philosophical Manuscripts - esp. passages on species being and the idea
that "man [sic] is social when doing science" (or something like that).

Academic, don't go there: Hegel on Self-consciousness.

Some other stuff: Ken Gergen's Relational Self (2 books with that in the
title), Bakhtin on consummation, Volosinov's Freudianism critique, Foucault
on subjectification, Hacking on "making up people" (and/or "a historical
ontology of ourselves").

Okay, now I've gone too far.

Love to hear what you are able to put together.

-greg
p.s. speaking of memory and the self, in doing a quick search for
zoopoliticon [sic], I found this interesting XMCA post from a gentleman I
don't remember:
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Mail/xmcamail.2014-03.dir/msg00175.html


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 2:04 AM, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu> wrote:

> I'm preparing to teach a capstone graduate course for teachers-to-be that
> includes a focus on identity.
> The major assignment is a Personal Literacy Portfolio in which students
> compile, organize, and discuss artifacts of their past in exploration of
> their identity. The rationale is that this self-awareness of positioning
> facilitates engagement with students of diverse cultural locations.
>
> I'm asking for suggestions of course resources.
> Rather than a single course reader, I'm looking for "experiential
> texts"-that is creative products in any medium that can help perturb
> essentialist ideas of core identity in favor of a more complex,
> poststructural view of identity as multiple and fragmented. Media can
> include academic writing in psychology, sociology, philosophy; short
> stories; poetry; film; works of art, etc.
>
> If you'd like to email me off-line (dkirsh@lsu.edu<mailto:dkirsh@lsu.edu>),
> I'll send a compilation of all suggestions to XMCA.
>
> Below is a list of some experiential texts I'm already considering.
>
> David
>
> Walkerdine, V. (1990). Chapter 1: Sex, power and pedagogy. In V.
> Walkerdine (Ed.), Schoolgirl fictions(pp. 3-15). London: Verso. Reprinted
> from Screen Education, 38, 14-24, 1981.
>
> PBS Video: http://www.pbs.org/program/nine-months-that-made-you/
> 9 Months That Made You   -  How a person's individuality is developed,
> including their sexuality
>
> Documentary on the life of a child kept without language for 13 years.
>
> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/14/genie-feral-child-los-angeles-researchers
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjZolHCrC8E
>
> Movie: Enemy  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_(2013_film)
> The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as two men who are physically identical,
> but different in terms of personality.
>
> Gee, J. P. (2001). Identity as an analytic lens for research in education.
> In W. G. Secada (Ed.), Review of Research in Education, 25 (pp. 3-56).
> Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association. [identity = kind
> of person one is recognized as being]
>
> Stremmel, A., Burns, J., Nganga, C., & Bertolini, K. (2015). Countering
> the essentialized discourse of teacher education. Journal of Early
> Childhood Teacher Education, 36(2), 156-174. [discussed in
> http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=20275]
>
>
>
>


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