By the way, Michelle Kwan and myself would like to know how we can contact
Marie Clay. Would any of the xmca-ers have her address, or better her
e-mail address? Thanks a lot! (Also, Michelle asked me
to apologize for causing some e-mail problems to you because she's been
using INternet Explorer to do her e-mailing; she'll switch to another
system in future).
Thanks and cheers,
Angel
(Angel Lin, English Dept, City University of Hong Kong; e-mail:
enangel who-is-at cityu.edu.hk)
At 12:01 AM 4/26/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Elina et al,;
>AERA sells the tapes of the major sessions which they record. You can order
>specific tapes from AERA by contacting them at 202 223-9485 ot
>http://aera.net perhaps.
>
>With regard to other CHAT sessions, I can report on some and suggest that
>those who wrote papers (as described in the CHAT- special interest program
>which was posted a while back) perhaps send them to Eugene Matusov who may
>put them in the newsletter for our group.
>
>Below is my report:
>The rountables on Monday were very well attended and covered a variety of
>topics, would like to hear about the paper session which i missed.
>
> A symposium organized by Peter Smagorinsky of Ethical Dilemmas in
>Culturing Children drew a good crowd. King Beach discussed the downside of
>intervening with children in Nepal. Kathryn Au and her colleague whose
>name I do not have here described the situation with native Hawaiian
>students with an excellent review of outside interventions that
>systematically undermined that culture, particularly by discouraging the
>primary means for cultural survival/maintenance and development, their
>language. My paper focused on dilemmas pertaining to intra-national
>interventions from the 1960's which led to Head Start programs etc. The
>illusion that such programs are eradicting group-based inequality in
>educational processes/outcomes was addressed and the dichotomy of local
>versus national approaches to culturing children was noted. Mike followed
>with a discussion of local approaches viv a vis the Fifth Dimension project
>and its cultural sensitivity to culturing without imposing others' values
>etc in a particular community, etc. Vera John-Steiner compressed her
>discussion of papers and invited participation from the audience which was
>muted somewhat and focused mostly on descriptions of the 5th dismension
>project.
>
>Group participation was much more vigorous on Thursday's business meeting
>and invited symposium on the Future of CHAT. This was truly an interactive
>session which Kris Gutierrez, Vera and Mike led. Yrjo E. and Elvira Lima
>were not able to attend as scheduled due to unforessen problems. The issue
>of diversity and it's connection to advances in CHAT were
>discussed....among other themes that those present may wish to expand on.
>
>The Special Interest group on CHAT will operate on a 2 year cycle with
>respect to officers, Luis Moll is president elect while Vera finishes her
>term. Gordon Wells is Program Officer elect, Eugene Matusov will take over
>a virtual, interactive newsletter (I can't wait to ask Lev and Alexei some
>things!!). Judy, our Treasurer was able to clone also but I don't have the
>name of the new person (help Judy?). Carolyn Panofsky, our V.P. was able to
>find a clone in me. We hope to put together another solid program for our
>next CHAT meeting in Montreal next year, and for the 4th year in a row, we
>will allow AERA to come along..
>
>
>I will report a little bit on the Measuring and Diagnosing the ZPD session
>with Gary Price, Peg Griffin, Arkady Margolis and others next time but
>would rather have someone else do it. Rubstov was not able to attend. I had
>mixed feelings re. the last presenter who posited cultural differences in
>cognitive styles (context independent/dependent a la Witkin) were related
>to differences in various outcomes..
>
>I did not attend Mike's Friday am session but hope his paper can be posted
>on the web or newsletter soon, and/or witnesses can report more.
>
>NOTE: Please persuade AERA members you know to join the CHAT sig in the
>next 30 days so we can have more than 3 sessions next year in Montreal.
>Judy added a few but many have not renewed. Her report I am sure is in the
>works.
>We still need a secretary/membership drive person to help.., C'est tout for
>now,
>Pedro
>
>At 08:50 PM 4/23/98 EDT, you wrote:
>>In a message dated 98-04-23 15:06:27 EDT, you write:
>>
>><< Rachel, I know the folks at AERA made recordings of some of the
sessions.
>> The tribute to Paulo Freire was recorded and included talks by Macedo,
>> Giroux, and McLaren among others. The talks are excellent. That's one way
>> of catching up on some of the conference.
>>
>> roberto
>>
>>
>> >>
>>Roberto, do you know any way to obtain the copies of these recordings?
>>
>>Elina
>>
>>
>
>