Re: Re(2): RE: leont'ev: externalization/internalization etc

From: Judy Diamondstone (diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 05 2000 - 09:24:32 PST


The website is wonderful! A terrific resource for teachers. Congratulations
to those who contributed to it.

Judy

At 08:37 AM 11/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
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> Judy scrobe:
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>>What I had in mind was that ideologies are coherent; activity systems are
>>by definition riven with contradictions that unsettle the terms in which
>>they're known -- so while ideologies are always in play, within the
>>activity system that is subjected to an activity theory analysis, the
>>contradictions that emerge in the course of "moving ahead" override/
>>challenge/ test whatever system of belief might otherwise sustain the
>>status quo.
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> i like this - and i would suppose that theories like ideologies are
>coherent - and the practices based on the theories are "riven with
>contradictions" - which would go a long way in describing the
>inconsistencies between educational theories proposed by academia/teacher
>educators which _are_ so marvelously coherent - and the contradictions
>faced by the classroom teacher when attempting to work classroom activitis
>based on particular theories - the resistance by the students, the
>architecture, the administration, the parents is from subtle to highly
>obvious - but resistant. even the teacher's own unexpected resistance
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>>Since I have never done an analysis on a system wider than the
>>classroom, and I haven't used AT as a mean of intervention, I am
>>projecting/ speculating about how it would, really, work.
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> being a proponent of teacher-research, why not research your own practice
> - and use activity theory for the interventions you would bring to your
>own teaching practices?
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> it is snowing - i took a long walk last night - a bright half moon -
>cloudless starry night - starry starry night ..... - fed apples to the
>horses down it the fields where the town just ends - woke up this
>morning to three inches of snow on the ground - the valley engulfed in
>whirls of snow obscuring the mountains - very comforting looking out the
>windows over a snowy world - wood burning fires in the stoves - coffee
>and hot toast - bliss.
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>phillip
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>The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
>Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
>The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
>buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
>"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
>reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
>"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
>repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
>it means.
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> from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
>Mendelsohn.
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>phillip white
>third grade teacher
>doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
>scrambling a dissertation
>denver, colorado
>phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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