I, too, am reviewing what I can find on afterschool and it fills a couple of
files.
Eric-- there is a recent book edited by J. Eccles and others that contains
articles by many
interesting people. I'll see what I can find by way of biblio, but the paper
by lois and her
colleague have several obvious places to start.
mike
On 12/13/05, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>
> Eric,
> Can you expand a bit on what you mean by clearly described methodology so
> that I might direct you to an appropriate piece of writing? In my varied
> work, for example, there is an overall methodology but each setting will
> have different methods (e.g., classroom, school, after school
> program,business or organization).
> Lois
>
>
> > From: ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
> > Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:27:07 -0600
> > To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
> > <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] Artist as creator reminds me of combined motor
> method
> >
> >
> > Mike:
> >
> > Once again I have credited you with a farther reaching arm then your
> frame
> > can support ( -: The implementation of performance preceeding
> development
> > is practiced at my small program from having students 'perform' work
> place
> > behaviors to having students provide instruction to a group of their
> peers
> > to having students practice interviews to having a student's
> conversation
> > videotaped. Besides the overview presentation article authored by
> Holzman
> > and Karliner I am lacking in the suggested reading material. I briefly
> > read some info on the eastsideinstitute website but was unable to gather
> > any clearly described methodology.
> >
> > eric
> >
> >
> >
> > Mike Cole
> > <lchcmike who-is-at gmail. To: "
> ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org"
> > <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org>
> > com> cc: "eXtended Mind,
> Culture,
> > Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Sent by: Subject: Re: [xmca] Artist
> as
> > creator reminds me of combined motor method
> > xmca-bounces who-is-at web
> > er.ucsd.edu
> >
> >
> > 12/13/2005 11:35
> > AM
> > Please respond
> > to mcole; Please
> > respond to
> > "eXtended Mind,
> > Culture,
> > Activity"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Interest in the potentials of afterschool hours for creating
> > development-enhancing enviroments does not come from our work
> afterschool,
> > Eric. Rather, we are part of a "Zeitgeist" of interest in such programs
> > with
> > important people like Shirley Brice Heath, Jackie Eccles, Lois and her
> > group, and many others. Our approach is distinctively different than
> > others,
> > I believe, in the way it intertwines normal undergraduate and graduate
> > education with involvement in the interventions.
> >
> > An important issue in this community is programming. Different
> implementers
> > have different
> > strategies. One of those strategies is to have young people engage in
> > locally culturallly valued activities (theatre in all its aspects is one
> > popular genre). There is always a value/political theory related to the
> > theory of development embodied in such activities, so their variations
> are
> > interesting for many reasons.
> >
> > The emphasis on public performance in such activities forfronts
> particular
> > manifestations of agency as well as a social context where, in Courtney
> > Cazden's apt phrase, "performance preceeds competence." For Courtney,
> this
> > idea was the key to how to understand zopeds;
> > by engaging in social activities where children/youth jointly enact a
> > production, the cognitive demands on individuals can be flexibly
> rearranged
> > so that the youngster experiences, jointly,
> > the quality of interaction that, subsequently, s/he may be able to use
> as a
> > psychological tool for appropriating the experience, "mentally."
> >
> > That is why I thnk we should focus on the issue of performance and
> discuss
> > the articles that
> > Lois put up for discussion, perhaps with Vygotsky's article as an anchor
> > point. It sounds like you have developed your own way of implementing
> this
> > methodology?
> >
> > mike
> >
> > On 12/13/05, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> But at present we have Lois et al 'sperformance as an intervention
> >> strategy
> >> to consider.
> >> mike
> >>
> >> Mike:
> >>
> >> Thank you for the push to read the Holzman and Karliner presentation
> >> paper.
> >> It is indeed proof that your work in the afterschool programs has
> started
> >> to grow in other areas. As I wrote earlier I will try to script a
> >> dialogue
> >> that presents what I was referring to earlier in how performance as
> >> intervention has benefited the students that I work with.
> >>
> >> eric
> >>
> >>
> >>
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