2 years ago, didn't seem that long.
Leontev
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/leontev/index.html
Engestrom
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/Paper/Engestrom/expanding/toc.htm
Mike Cole wrote:
>Jim-- Using the archive and google, you ought to be able to locate xmca's
>reading of Leontiev last year (?) and prior discussions of relevance that
>might give your reading group a running start.
>
>The question you asked earlier about "must" reading is almost certainly
>not answerable by one person on this list. Mohamed elhammoumi has written
>provocatively that to understand activity theory, one must read Feurbach
>and Marx. There is an interesting paper by Michael Hames tracing Marx
>back to Herder and Forward to Vygotsky and cultural-historical psychology,
>and certainly, Alfred Lang would urge reading Herder. If Arne Raithel was
>with us he would point to PIERCE (in "dos Kapital letters!) :-). Leigh
>Star would say Anselm Strauss. Yrjo would chime in with Bateson in addition
>to many on that list, etc.
>
>If you had a little time, you could do the whole community a favor by
>using a google search on the archive using these and ohter names that
>crop up frequently as a search tool and, I'de wager, come up with a great
>reading list for a graduate class!
>
>The issue of how to make web-based courses really useful interests many
>on this list, and not a few are directly engaged in design and implementation
>of such courses which are proliferating rapidly. And that might be the
>medium of choice if we were to construct a course here.
>
>In the spring I will be offering a local grad course called "Mediational
>Theories of Mind." It will last 10 weeks. I would welcome participation
>from anyone on this list, although particiation-by-lurking would probably
>not be particularly productive for such an enterprise.
>
>So far as I can tell, our limitations remain social, not technological,
>for higher levels of mutual education and support.
>mike
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-- There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it. A.R. Luriavygotsky@charter.net http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/index.html http://marxists.org/subject/psychology/index.htm
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