Pedro, I've got to check on the status of a glitch in my plane ticket, but I'll be at aera all week and would greatly appreciate meeting and especially seeing xcma faces that remain unfamiliar to me.
does anybody know if the recent earthquake there has fowled up any hotel bookings?
bb
>Estimados Eugene, King et al;
>
>It is getting closer to AERA and getting a pre-conf discussion seems
>useful. I don't know where to start but it seems that this "speed up" many
>of us confront takes a toll and this last year the CHAT SIG presence has
>been minimal on XMCA. I wonder how many XMCAers are connected or going to
>AERA or CHAT SIG.
>It may be that the persons now active in XMCA are not that connected or
>informed so perhaps a bit of fact finding may be helpful before the Seattle
>sig. meeting..
>
>
>That's one suggestion for the meeting (what day? time?), to re-examine
>this relation given that XMCA was and still one "very big advantage" we
>have as a SIG, and that the CHAT SIG was organized to serve as an annual
>North American conference on all things CHAT related., interspersed with
>ISCRAT and other socio-cultural meetings elsewhere..
>
>Another agenda item may be how to connect the activity on XMCA in the last
>year and this one to the CHAT program in the future. It seems that unless
>CHAT SIG members remain active on XMCA (at least a good proportion of us),
>this will be difficult. I know I am guilty of not keeping up this last year...
>
>Without XMCA, we are just another special interest group at AERA. With it,
>the CHAT SIG presence becomes a / the means for getting part of the
>community together physically..
>
>We can't force CHAT SIG members to be on XMCA or vice versa but only a
>critical mass is needed i think.
>
>Finally, perhaps a way to promote some activity before AERA then is to post
>our papers to be presented in the CHAT SIG program soon, (I'll post mine on
>Cultural Identity Development if Eugene can help by early next week, and )
>others can perhaps provide a preview to see how some priming may work.
>
>and start thinking about whom we might think about inviting for next year
>to provide us with a "draw"....while possible like Zinchenko or B.
>Elkonin.... for New Orleans 2002
>
>just some thoughts from the mighty Ohio....
>pedro
>
>
>ps. Please forward this to chat sig list ( I don't have them as a nickname
>yet)
>Below is what Eugene has on our website..
>Schedule of CH SIG sponsored presentations at the 2001 Seattle AERA meetings
>13 proposals out of 21 were accepted for the 2001 Seattle meetings:
>a) 3 symposiums, one of which will be our business meeting;
>b) 10 roundtables (we had 7 slots and additional 3 slots we kindly got from
>Division D)
>
>Each proposal was reviewed on average by 3.7 reviewers.
>
>
>
>2.01
>
>
>Roundtables
>Sponsors: Cultural Historical & Division D
>Session Type: Roundtable
>Place: Convention Center 4th Floor Room 6B
>Time: 4/10/01 1:15:00 PM Ends: 1:55:00 PM
>1509
>Participants Communicative Practice and Situated Learning: Dynamics of
>Contextualization and Positioning in an Emerging Learning Context . Kevin
>O'connor, Clark University
> Stories from the Mexican Countryside: The use of oral Histories in the
>Creation of Historical Context in Ethnographic Research . Melanie Uttech,
>Virginia Tech
> Gone Missing? The relative absence of social class as a variable in
>cultural-historical activity theory. A review and discussion . Carolyn P.
>Panofsky, Rhode Island College
>
>
>
>17.27
>
>
>Roundtables
>Sponsors: Cultural Historical Research
>Session Type: Roundtable
>Place: Convention Center 4th Floor Room 6B
>Time: 4/11/01 4:05:00 PM Ends: 4:45:00 PM
>1509
>Participants Co-existing in two Cultures: Parental Beliefs and Children's
>Activities in an Indian Immigrant Community . Jyoti M. Jain, University of
>Illinois; Arti Goncu, University of Illinois
> Learning to be a writer: New Literacies in the Classroom . Pilar Lacasa,
>University of Cordova; Mara Alburquerque, University of Cordova; Amelia
>Reina, University of Cordova; Soledad Blanco, University of Cordova
> Expanding the boundaries: Play and Literacy in School . William Buxton,
>Suny Cortland
> Cultural Tools and Cognitive Development: Implications of a Constructivist
>Approach to Mathematics Teaching in Elementary Schools . Eduardo Vianna,
>University of New York
> Changes in Classroom Discourse: Can They Affect Gender Differences in
>Students' Math Confidence . Elizabeth Kelly, The Graduate Center, CUNY
> Achieving Legitimate Peripheral Participation through Arts of the Margin:
>Community-Based Arts for Urban Youth . Dana Walker, University of Colorado
> Narrativizing Mental Representations in Multimedia Discourse: Navigating
>through the Intersubjectivity of the Zone if Proximal . Chrysoula K.
>Fantaousakis, Kean University
>
>
>
>23.64
>
>
>Exploring Identity Development from A Cultural-Historical Perspective
>Sponsors: Cultural Historical SIG
>Session Type: Symposium
>Place: Westin 2nd Floor St. Helens
>Time: 4/12/01 10:35:00 AM Ends: 12:05:00 PM
>1509
>Chair James V. Wertsch, Washington University
>Participants Cultural and ethnic identity from a cultural-historical
>perspective . Pedro R. Portes, University of Louisville
> A sense of self: On gender and technology in school . Katherine Goff,
>University of Colorado
> Knowledge and identity within the sociohistorical approach:
>Constructing/deconstructing students "at risk" in an American high school .
>Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Montana State University
>Discussant King D. Beach, Michigan State University
>
>
>
>30.23
>
>
>Cultural-Historical SIG
>Sponsors: Cultural-Historical SIG
>Session Type: Symposium
>Place: Convention Center 4th Floor Room 614
>Time: 4/12/01 6:15:00 PM Ends: 8:15:00 PM
>1509
>
>Chair Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico
>Participant Re-examining the context of adult/child collaboration in Reggio
>Emilia and in the United States . Baji Rankin, University of New Mexico
> Promoting collaborations among Head Start staff through dialogue,
>encounters/experiences,re-visiting and reflection in Chicago, IL . Karen
>Haigh, Chicago Commons Child Development
> Collaboration and the zone of proximal development . Vera John-Steiner,
>University of New Mexico
>Discussant David Fernie, Ohio State University
>
>
>
>37.22
>
>
>Activity Theoretical Perspectives on Development and Change in of
>Educational Praxix
>Sponsors: Cultural Historical Sig
>Session Type: Symposium
>Place: Westin 2nd Floor Cascade Ballroom 1-B
>Time: 4/13/01 12:25:00 PM Ends: 1:55:00 PM
>1509
>Chair Wolf-Michael Roth, University of Victoria
> Yrjo Engestrom, University of Helsinki
>Participant The Complex of School Change: From Individuals to Institutions
>and Back . William Barowy, Lesley University; Cindy Jouper ESD 113
> Redesigning an Urban Teacher Education Program: An Activity Theory
>Perspective . Wolff-Michael Roth, University of Victoria
> Expansive Learning in a School Community: Multi-Voiced Anaylsis and
>Redesign of Instruction in the 'Knowledge Work Laboratory' . Yrjo
>Engestrom, University of California; Ritva Engestrom, University of
>Helsinki ; Arja Suntio, University of Helsinki
> The Internet Learning Forum: Conceived as a Socio-Technical Insteraction
>Network . Sasha Barab, Rob Kling, Steve Schatz, Lisa Yamagata-Lynch, Julie
>Moore, Don Cunningham, Cathy Brown and Tom Duffy, Indian University
>Discussant Eugene Matusov, University of Delaware
>
>
>At 04:59 PM 2/11/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hello everybody--
>>
>>I copied the schedule of the Cultural-Historical SIG sponsored presentations
>>at the 2001 AERA Seattle meetings on our SIG website at
>>http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/CH-SIG/schedule_for_the_2001_.htm (or you can
>>go to our CH SIG website at http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/CH-SIG and click on
>>"AERA2001 Schedule" button).
>>
>>Let me know, please if you have questions.
>>
>>At some point, closer to the AERA Seattle meeting, we should initiate a
>>discussion about what focus (if any) we want to have for our SIG for the
>>next AERA meeting in 2002 so we can include it in our call for proposals
>>this summer. King and I think that it is a good idea to start this
> >discussion electronically and carry it out to our business meeting in
>>Seattle. Any suggestions/comments on the process of decision making will be
> >very helpful and welcome.
>>
>>Take care,
>>
>>Eugene
>>---------------
>>Eugene Matusov
>>School of Education
>>University of Delaware
>>Newark, DE 19716, USA
>>
>>(301) 831-1266 (office)
>>(301) 831-4445 (fax)
>>email: ematusov@udel.edu
>>web: http://ematusov.soe.udel.edu
>>
>>Office location: Willard Hall#206D
>>---------------
>>
>>
>
>
>
>Pedro R. Portes, Ph.D
>Professor of Educational
> & Counseling Psychology
>(502 852-0630/ fax 0629)
> http://www.louisville.edu/edu/~prport01
>http://www.outcrybookreview.com/pedroportes.htm
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