a bit about myself

Anita Craig (ACRAIG who-is-at education.uct.ac.za)
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:40:00 SAST-2

thanks peggy for your last message and yes i too am please to be on
the list. i am interested in the various constraints on the learning-
teaching situation, e.g. the conditions of people's lives, overlearned
cognitive repertoires, the demands of tasks (e.g. epistemic rules) and
yes, 'culture' too. i have completed in p.hd on the relationship
between cognition and culture early eighties which is when i came
into contact with cole and wertzsch's work (apart from piaget,
pascual-leone & vygotsky). more recenlty my obsession with the
realisation that we are dealing with a bankrupt conception of the
person in social studies drove me to undertake and complete a
doctorate in philosphy on a conception of ourselves. so, i am a bit
of a mixed bag! i have done quite a bit of work on what we call
'underprepared students' in south africa, those who were deliberately
deneid adequate learning opportunities under apartheid and who
want/deserve access to universities and other post-school
institutions (all published locally). i visited the lchc (san diego)
in 1984 when south africans were not meant to be seen but i still did
manage to meet a very intereting guy from the labortory, diaz?.

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Anita Craig School of Education
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