from easing up to eclectisism

From: Bill Barowy (wbarowy@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 08:26:23 PDT


I'd like to be supportive of your continued postings Eric. Many of us bring to
xmca our states of mind formed throughout our lifetimes and situated by events
local to our immediate space and time. I have brought bunnies, skateparks and
a variety of work related issues, and over time with xmca, I have been learning
that this group of like-minded people, although coming from different
backgrounds, are struggling with similar issues, as each other, and as I.
Perhaps you, like me, struggle with, and in, an institutional system in which
there is not a discourse critical of the system that is pervasive throughout
the entire system. Or perhaps a critical and transformative discourse is only
located in niches of the system, struggling to survive. XMCA can be a place to
engage in critical, collaborative, expansive, creative, imaginative, and
dialectical communications, (did I miss a genre or two?) that in turn, can be
brought back to one's everyday situations, and perhaps be transformative of
those situations. At least, that, on one front, is the thrust of an informal
"transforming experiment" I am engaging in, and inspired by the likes of
Engestrom, Bronfenbrenner, and of course, vygotsky. (And all those sociologists
of bureaucracies.)

Along the lines of assessing this experiment, can anyone offer some references
about ways of determining how "language" and its accompaniments are taken up by
people from others?

I suspect from earlier postings that I might come from a different perspective
than Bruce, about being "eclectic" with theory. It'll be interesting to see
what really happens, however.

bb

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