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Re: [xmca] Emotions and methodology




----- Original Message ----- From: "Jennifer Vadeboncoeur" <vadebonc@interchange.ubc.ca>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: [xmca] Emotions and methodology


Mabel and Martin,

A colleague and I are finishing up a paper
looking at SEL programs and we've also used
Martin's (2001) piece, The problem of transfer,
and the sociocultural critique of schooling in
the Journal of the Learning Sciences to think
through ontology, the production of positions for
identities, and the role of schooling in the
process of "producing" certain kinds of
"outcomes" for children and youth. The "purpose
of schooling" is a central issue to (all of) our
work, and one that surfaced at AERA several years
ago as well.

Nel Noddings work may help in a tangential way,
because she is concerned as well with creating a
school context that addresses the whole person-a
person with cognitive, affective, social
abilities and relationships. She has challenged
folks like Cohen of the Center for Social and
Emotional Education, recently, to think through
changes in school climate on a broader and more
relational level.

Best - jennifer




Mabel,

Yes, this is where LSV insists on the importance of not confusing epistemological issues with ontological ones. It's one of the more puzzling passages in Crisis, and I suspect there are some problems with the translation. (Is the indented passage a quotation from Hoffding? Does anyone have that text?) Nothing here about methodological dualism, however. I don't think this passage is the place to start to understand better the distinction between epistemology and ontology, if that is what you want to do.

Martin

You might consider taking a look here (if so tell me whether or not it helps):

Packer, M. J., & Goicoechea, J. (2000). Sociocultural and constructivist theories of learning: Ontology, not just epistemology. Educational Psychologist, 35(4), 227-241.


On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:45 PM, Mabel Encinas wrote:


 Martin,



Here it is (Andy sent it to me, I have it in hardcopy Vol 3 of Vygotsky's Collected Works, p. 310): http://marx.org/archive/vygotsky/works/crisis/psycri13.htm#p1367


 Mabel










 Subject: Re: [xmca] Emotions and methodology
 From: packer@duq.edu
 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:42:06 -0500
 To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu

 Mabel,

I confess I don't recognize the term methodological dualism. Where are you finding this?

 Martin

 On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:45 PM, Mabel Encinas wrote:



My question to Andy was if he could please give me some references about the difference-relation between ontological and methodological dualism? I was aimed to get some contemporary references to this discussion. I already had read Vygotsky. Does anyone has a suggestion, please?



 Thank you,
 Mabel










 Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:56:07 -0800
 Subject: Re: [xmca] Hello Other Brain, how are you?
 From: lchcmike@gmail.com
 To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu

There was a discussion of this topic around your MCA article a while back, Michael. Mabel might be able to use some of the specific techniques, which, I recall, were not too demading in terms of technology, to find a bridge to
 what her advisors expect.

Martin's sources are right on. But Mabel is going to have to negotiate the
 rocky
shoals of her own institutional situation, and invoking XMCA is not likely
 to win her a lot of friends!!

 mike

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:

In the following piece, we show how emotion (as evidenced in prosody) is a
 resource for the coordination of social action. Michael
 >>>>>
 Cult Stud of Sci Educ
 DOI 10.1007/s11422-009-9203-8
 Solidarity and conflict: aligned and misaligned prosody
 as a transactional resource in intra- and intercultural
 communication involving power differences
 Wolff-Michael Roth Æ Kenneth Tobin

 here

 On 2009-11-14, at 6:55 AM, Martin Packer wrote:
 >>>>>
I'm going to ignore Andy's request to ignore his message to Mabel, because I'm sure Mabel is not the only person being told this sort of thing. The claim, I suppose, is that emotion is a subjective experience, and therefore something mental, internal, personal, private and so inaccessible to other people, including the researcher, who has access only to the external
 'expression' of that emotion, on the face, in movements, etc.

Nonsense. How to argue against that view? Take a look at Joe de Rivera's work on emotions as interpersonal movements, towards or away from people on three interpersonal dimensions of intimacy, openness, and status. Read Hall and Cobey (1976) on emotion as transformation of the world. Read Mead's Mind, Self and Society where he challenges Darwin, insisting that "we cannot approach them [emotions] from the point of view of expressing a content in the mind of the individual" (p. 17) because to do so presumes a
 dualism between consciousness and the biological organism.

These are some resources that come immediately to my mind. What can others
 out there recommend?

 Martin


 On Nov 14, 2009, at 4:42 AM, Andy Blunden wrote:

 You have good muses Mabel (Vygotsky and Marx), pity you
 don't have better supervisors. Your approach, studying
 microsituations as social, is Vygotsky's approach too, I
 think, and excellent one, that is often, I fear, not well
 understood. I am probably the last person to ask about that
 kind of problem as I have a devil of a problem making myself
 understood. Others will know the answers to your questions
 better than me, too. But I will mention a few suggestions.

 Mabel Encinas wrote:

My supervisors are questioning now, that I do not study emotions, but "the expression of emotions". I know how to solidify my argument in this bit, but could you please give me some references of where should I read about the difference-relation between ontological and methodological
 dualism?


 I guess you have already read Vygotsky's comments on
 ontological vs methodological/epistemological dualism:
 http://marx.org/archive/vygotsky/works/crisis/psycri13.htm#p1367

 If you use Google on this one, you will probably find a page
 where I am being attacked by someone called Neville for
 failing to make this distinction. I am far from sure of the
 value of that exchange but you are welcome to read it. I
 would not attempt a short summary of this issue.

 I am not sure what you are being accused of about emotions.
 Martha Nussbaum is a Critical Theorist who writes good stuff
 about emotions. And of course everyone reads Antonio
 Damassio, with his distinction between feelings and
 emotions. Certainly, emotions are only present in
 consciousness thanks to their "interpretation" by culturally
 acquired concepts.

 ""the expression of emotions" is a strange expression to me.
 Are they using "emotions" to refer to forms of consciousness
 which are "expressed" in high blood pressure, etc? Or are
 they using "emotions" to refer to physiological conditions,
 which are "expressed" in the character of behavior. I don't
 understand. I am sure others will know. Sounds like a
 template accusation.

 Andy

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