> At 03:08 AM 6/11/99 -0700, David R. Russell wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > I'm trying to think through questions of written discourse and
> > interdisciplinarity. I love Paul Prior's new book, Writing /
> Disciplinarity:
> > A Sociohistoric Account of Literate Activity in the Academy, which takes an
> > activity approach. But I wondered if any of you know of other uses of
> > activity theory to investigate disciplinarity / interdisciplinarity, whether
> > or not they take up discourse specifically.
>
> Reply on list please! I'd love to hear of anything written along these
> lines as
> well. David, could you post a digest of off-list response or send one to me?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Darren
>
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> Darren Cambridge, Assistant Director
> COMPUTERS WRITING AND RESEARCH LAB
> University of Texas at Austin
> Austin, TX 78712
> phone 512.232.5147 fax 512.495.4524 cellular 512.799.4947
A couple of references I used that might be helpful are:
Hicks, D. (1996). Introduction. In D. Hicks (ed.), Discourse, Learning,
and Schooling. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Langer, J. A. (ed.) (1987) Language, Literacy, and Culture: Issues of
Society and Schooling. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corp.
+ Dan +
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