Re: Re(2): RE: leont'ev: externalization/internalization etc

From: Carl Ratner (cr2@humboldt1.com)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 09:21:08 PST

Diane,
  What do you mean ideologies are coherent? If you look at the right wing
ideology in the US it's full of contradictions. They profess devotion to
life including the embryo yet support the promotion of gun sales which kill
people; they support individual freedom yet interfere w. the personal and
political lives of people; they support family values and favor the free
market that is destroying these.
  Carl Ratner 

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> From: dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu (Diane Hodges)
> Reply-To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 09:32:24 -0700
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re(2): RE: leont'ev: externalization/internalization etc
> Resent-From: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 08:33:37 -0800 (PST)
> 
> Judy Judy offers -
>> What I had in mind was that ideologies are coherent; activity systems are
>> by definition riven with contradictions that unsettle the terms in which
>> they're known -- so while ideologies are always in play, within the
>> activity system that is subjected to an activity theory analysis, the
>> contradictions that emerge in the course of "moving ahead" override/
>> challenge/ test whatever system of belief might otherwise sustain  the
>> status quo. Since I have never done an analysis on a system wider than the
>> classroom, and I haven't used AT as a mean of intervention, I am
>> projecting/ speculating about how it would, really, work.
> 
> prompting me, from the grave, to ask of the others here: has anyone done
> the kind of research Judy is speaking about? perhaps some pragmatic
> experience would be of use here - not a reference to "other" articles, but
> a personal account of how AT might be used in ways that test/challenge
> dominant beliefs systems?
> diane
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> and i slow down, learning how to
> enter - implicate and unspoken (still) heart-of-the-world.
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> (Daphne Marlatt, "Coming to you")
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> diane celia hodges
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> university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
> instruction
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