RE: double hmmmmdemnity

From: Judy Diamondstone (judith.diamondstone@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 17:51:04 PDT


Mike, am I understanding you correctly, that you think it's not wise to use
the AERA venues for mentoring because mentoring should not be _restricted_
to AERA?

As for an international course, the specifics make all the difference --
when would it be? how much would it cost?

Judy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cole [mailto:mcole@weber.ucsd.edu]
> Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 8:41 PM
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: double hmmmmdemnity
>
>
>
> Judy and Bill-- I am responding on mca, but I assume this note will
> leak through to the AERA sig list.
>
> 1. The proposal to let exec committee members submit papers when they
> are not at an unfair advantage seems totally justifiable. Exec com
> members are the most committed folks in AERA, so why shouldnt their
> voice be heard, subject to the review criteria you specify.
>
> 2. With respect to the issue of mentoring, I would deeply regret
> restricting
> the suggestions to AERA. Education is O-N-E (as in odin, uno, etc) form
> of activity we need to understand and which we should be mentoring junior
> and,,,,,,, ahem senior, participants... but, despite W's strong
> committment
> (right?) to leaving no kid behind (why leave them when it is so
> much easier
> just to give a timely push?) from the xmca perspective it is
> extraordinarily
> unhelpful to substitute the part for the whole. AERA is only one
> of the venues
> in which our members are active. So why restrict tutoring measures to that
> one organization (other than the fact that you folks are carrying
> this particular load)?? Too much work to open up to human
> development, which, so far as
> I can tell, is not restricted to those activities which are the focus of
> AERA?
>
> Note. I have offered to start organizing an international course. I have
> received no response to that offer. Its a mistake? People are
> worried about
> their electic bills? Its summer? Killing each other comes more natrurally
> than cultivating each other?
>
> Perplexed in so california where the fog is there in the morning
> and evening
> to save us against global warming. But where warm feelings surive (how?).
> mie
> k
>



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