Re: [xmca] Gunilla Lindqvist

From: Sonja Baumer (sbaumer@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2006 - 08:28:33 PST


HI
HI Leif, Jan and Inga

My name is Sonja Baumer. Here at the University of California, San
Diego (in Michael Cole's lab) we conducted a study on Playworlds, very
much inspired by Gunilla's work. Other members of my group include :
Beth Ferholt, Lars Rossen, Robert Lecusay, Monica Nilsson, Kristen
Clark. There also are groups in Finland (Pentti Hakkarainen and Anna
Rainio) and in Japan (Kiyotaka Miyazaki, Hiroaki Ishiguru and Yuki
Fujino) also working within the framework of play pedagogy.. We are
now writing a proposal for a special issue of MCA that will be
devoted to to Playworlds
and "play pedagogy" and in which will all groups feature their work.

I am attaching the paper that the San Diego group published in
"Cognitive Development" about Playworld. The paper reviews
Gunilla's work and directly examines the affects of playworld
educational activity on the development of narrative competence in
children ages 5-7. The study may be relevant to the discussion of
ZOPED empirical evidence.

Please pass this mail and my greetings to Gunilla's family and colleagues.
Best,
Sonja Baumer
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, University of California San Diego &
Institute for the Study of Social Change, University of California, Berkeley

On 12/5/06, Leif Strandberg <leifstrandberg.ab@telia.com> wrote:
> Dear friends in XMCA,
>
> I passed on the conversation about Gunilla Lindqvist we had some weeks
> ago to her husband Jan Lindqvist and Gunilla's workmates at Karlstad
> University in Sweden (they are not paticipants in xmca). Yesterday I
> got a message from them. They are more than happy to see that Gunilla's
> work is still alive and they asked me to give you all a Thank You for
> remembering Gunilla.
>
> Thank you
>
> from
>
> Jan Lindqvist
> Inga-Lill Emilsson
>
> /
>
> Leif Strandberg
> Sweden
>
> 2006-12-05 kl. 03.38 skrev Matt Brown:
>
> > On Dec 3, 2006, at 11:08 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
> >> I have been puzzling again over the constructivism/constructionism
> >> distinction which has resurfaced here.
> >
> > Mike's message inspired me to go looking for some resources online,
> > and I found a few goodies:
> >
> > http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
> > http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_construction.html
> >
> > Ian Hacking also has a book where he tries to untangle some of these
> > issues. It's well worth the read for anyone trying to get straight
> > about constructivalationism. ;)
> >
> > http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/hackingi/scofwhat.htm
> >
> > The lesson I get from the book is that it is counter-productive to
> > bandy about talk about "social construction" in a generalized way,
> > that there are a number of related but distinct ideas that go under
> > the banner of "social construction," and that one really ought to be
> > clear about how certain things are and aren't socially constructed,
> > rather than speak very broadly about it.
> >
> > Hacking sometimes goes to far in trying to make things come out
> > neatly, but it is a good first step.
> >
> > Best,
> > Matt
> >
> > --
> > Matt Brown (mattbrown@ucsd.edu) | "The mind and the world jointly
> > Philosophy Graduate Student | make up the mind and the world."
> > Univ. of California San Diego | - Hilary Putnam
> > Homepage: http://thm.askee.net |
> >
> >
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