At 15:26 11/11/03 +0000, Eugene wrote:
>our approach is on odds with mainstream institutional demands judging
>quality of our work based on individualistic authorship…. I feel that
>behind authorship of articles that I contribute is a broad academic
>community (or even communities).
>
>
Eugene,
I have just finished writing a paper for my coursework that focuses on
this. One of my conclusions, following Wardekker, W. L., (2000) "Criteria
for the Quality of Inquiry", Mind, Culture and Activity, 7(4)was that too
much emphasis is placed by institutions on the product of research rather
than the process of change that it engenders in all those involved. The
great benefit that I gained from writing the paper was developing an
understanding of CHAT (or whatever we call it) research vis-a-vis how
learning processes experienced in a research study enhance a person's
(researcher's, participant's, report reader, etc) culturally-held meaning
systems. I am not sure how much of Wardekker's and others' work I
appropriated, but I am left viewing CHAT research (in education) as a
platform for change and learning, and as a means of understanding the
relationship between change and learning to actions. I'd love to learn more
about intervention research now!
The value of XMCA in this respect is extreme if one's work is to have
generative power for future practice. That is a little more relevant than
positioning yourself as the all-knowing author who has something for the
community to generalise across time and space. I was particularly drawn to
Wardekker's following quote:
[The product of research should be conceived as]an understanding of the
change processes in a specific situation that may or may not have
implications for other situations. Knowledge is a mediational means for
focusing our attention on specific aspects of a practice (Wardekker, 2000,
p. 269).
These thoughts may not be new fodder for many in this community, but I have
certainly experienced some epiphanies over the last couple of weeks!
Phil
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