[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

RE: [xmca] Understanding is no method but rather a form of communication



Action research, at least from a teacher-research perspective, is something I've always understood to emerge from participants' inquiries into their own practice. When teachers write about their classroom inquiries, they tend to begin with the story of the question, not what Hegel or Habermas thinks. Yet in this discussion of action research, the only people given credit for thinking are what you've called "researchers" who can stand back and take in the whole, rather than those with an emic perspective on their own experiences.

Or, at least, that's how it's come across to me. I know a lot of teacher-researchers, and have worked from that perspective myself, so I've been pretty well submerged in their discourse of emic understanding and distance from other people's detached study of them.

Peter Smagorinsky 
Distinguished Research Professor of English Education 
Department of Language and Literacy Education 
The University of Georgia 
309 Aderhold Hall 
Athens, GA 30602 

Advisor, Journal of Language and Literacy Education                                                       
Follow JoLLE on twitter @Jolle_uga


-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:53 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] Understanding is no method but rather a form of communication

Could you spell this out a bit Peter? I'm not grasping your point. 

Martin

On Jul 18, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:

> What I find surprising about this whole discussion is that each and every source invoked is a highly placed theorist. It seems a bit patronizing to me. 

__________________________________________
_____
xmca mailing list
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca


__________________________________________
_____
xmca mailing list
xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca