Berkenkotter & Ravotas article

Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:58:28 -0800 (PST)

Hi Carol, Hi Doris, I had the opportunity to read your MCA article
"Genre as tool in the transmission of Practice over time and
across professional boundaries" which I really enjoyed and at the
same time left me depressed. In line with Leigh's work on
classificatory systems, but in terms of how these shape
experience, and in the case study that you report people's
indentity and lives, I have one question for you ( perhaps
especially for Doris). How do you espcape the bind of
intertextuality, the web of institutional pressures to
"pathologize"? It is great to see it, to analyze it, to unveil
the "dirty" secrets. but what are the alternatives? How do you
escape being locked into a status quo of "pathology" and its
reproduction? The therapist as researcher is a lousy one that only
uses "etic" means of approaching the culture of his or her client.
Where and how did you begin to change that?

Francoise Francoise Herrmann fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org
http://www.wenet.net/~herrmann