isn't this concept only available 'historically'?/'descriptively'?
Diane-- It is a solution (not THE solution) to this problem
that I call a mesogenetic methodology. The time scales
are such that one can observe the interactions among
events/elements at different time scales. So, for example,
we have kids in activity settings with histories of 2-9
years where many samples of participant interactions are
available to recapture microgenetic changes. The undergrads
are there 10 weeks, three new cohorts a year. The kids are
their from 3 seconds to 3+ years. The artifacts change
at all sorts of different rates. The institution has been
constantly in a state of raggedy equilibrium where
better times are just around the corner.
I think that this range of time scales is consistent with
the activist/interventionist/practice-based approach that
I have been inarticulately gesturing at here and in
Cultural Psych.
We are dealing with several different kinds of heterogeneity,
and when time is the topic, the word I have learned to use
is heterochrony. I think this is what Jay and others have
been discussing with you.
mike
or am I missing something?
diane
"Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani Difranco
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faculty of education
university of british columbia
vancouver, bc canada
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