Re: 3rd generation systems, objects, boundaries

Gordon Wells (gwells who-is-at oise.utoronto.ca)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 10:54:23 -0500

Bill,

A few days late, I have just read your message about your interpenetrating
activity systems involving two school boards and a your college. I have
been working on a much smaller scale for the last 7 years with a group of
teachers, grades 1-8, in the Developing Inquiring Communities in Education
Project (DICEP), in which the classrooms involved as well as our
collaborative action research group are the inter-penetrating activity
systems. You may be interested to have a look at our web page (see below).

The DICEP project has now come to the end of its funding - although the
group continues - and I have been thinking recently of trying to do
something similar on a larger scale - such as what you describe. I should
be interested to read any reports you can let me have. I should also like
to know who the funding organization is - if you're able to tell me. I
wouldn't want to compete with you by approaching the same organization.

I look forward to hearing more about your project and your construal of
its activities in terms of activity theory.

Best wishes,

Gordon Wells
gwells who-is-at oise.utoronto.ca
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/~ctd/DICEP

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