canadian roots

From: Mike Cole (mcole@weber.ucsd.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 04 2001 - 17:31:59 PDT


Dianne--

You ask:

are you really glad? because we really are, far and away, more
enlightened, socialist democracy and all.
:)

>Sorry your dollar is worth 65cents!

oh you americans and money. tsk. tsk.
at least our less-than 100 cents dollars are pretty colours.

#1) Sure i am really glad! This medium makes irony difficult to deal with
but none there at all.

the main point i was trying to make in my remarks was that the views
expressed by Nate as "what everyone does" are most certainly NOT
what everyone does in my part of the world. I actually doubt that they
are the norm in Canada, but would be happy to be wrong.

A major purpose of XMCA is to provide a medium in which people who want to
both "keep culture in mind" and be acceptable as social scientists to be able to do so.
It is not an easy task. It requires research practices which take time, as you
point, out (in my experience, a LOT of time), mix pre-20th century
modernist categories of scholarship, and combine methods in a systematic
method-ology.

The pretty colors of the loonies does not help in the humane efforts
of the Canadian citizenship, worse the luck.

What do you think of Sylvia Scribner's treatment of Vygotsky and
history?
mike



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