Re: MCA and Burke's parlor

Eugene Matusov (ematusov who-is-at cats.ucsc.edu)
Tue, 25 Jun 1996 18:39:29 -0700

Hello everybody--

At 07:10 PM 6/25/96 AST, Russ Hunt wrote:
>> I think this way of joining is a white middle class one. Compare
>> Gordon and Kenneth Burke's descriptions with the following
>> principles for successful joining of play in white middle class
>> kindergarten children taken from Garvey (1984):
>
>I'm not sure, though, that in the two cases the "way of joining" is
>all that different. It's _what_ they're joining. Seems to me
>Garvey's model describes both cases about equally well.

Thanks, Russ. I'm sorry, this was exactly the point that I wanted to make by
bringing Carvey's quote but forgot to write a paragraph. I wanted to make
comparison not for a difference but for similarity.

Eugene Matusov
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