Re: xmca

From: Peter Smagorinsky (smago@coe.uga.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 02:30:56 PDT


We've recently signed a contract with Erlbaum to publish a book-length
study. One draft of the ms. is completed, and we're working on revisions.
With luck it'll be out next year.
Smagorinsky, P., & Taxel, J. (in press). The discourse of character
education. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

At 02:13 PM 10/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Peter, I would be very interested in seeing your study of the discourse of
>character education...Would you mind sharing when you are ready?
>
>Thanks,
>Ben Kirshner
>
>At 03:10 PM 10/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>I think this is done both innocently (perhaps lazily) and deliberately.
>>For instance, for a study of the discourse of character education I'm
>>completing, I've come across a book chapter by Christine H. Sommers
>>(Sommers, C. H. (2002). How moral education is finding its way back into
>>America's schools. In W. Damon (Ed.), Bringing in a new era in character
>>education (pp. 23-41). Stanford, CA: Hoover Press.) in which she
>>dismisses liberalism in general by lumping Rousseau and Dewey together.
>>These two are fundamentally different; Rousseau believed that society
>>corrupts the pristine child, Dewey believed that development is
>>essentially social. But for Sommers, the conservative ideology required
>>a dismissal of both as a conflated pair in order to reject and diminish
>>anything remotely relativistic in the realm of character development.
>>Peter
>>
>>At 09:53 AM 10/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>>>AMEN!!
>>>
>>>Ben wrote:
>>>
>>>Vygotsky, like Ilyenkov, made wide contributions in the development of
>>>construct
>>>ionist social psychology. Like with Hegel, Marx and other really
>>>fertile thinke
>>>rs, there is so much in Vygotsky's work, that it is easy to grab a few
>>>ideas and
>>> use them without realizing that by doing so we distort beyond
>>> recognition the w
>>>hole contribution.
>>>
>>>
>>>Ditto Dewey and a lot of the other people discussed on this list.
>>>
>>>Ben-- Social psychology as practiced by those who publish in APA journals
>>>doesn't seem much like the intellectual enterprise you refer to as
>>>social psychology which would fit perfectly into our Communication
>>>Department.
>>>
>>>Is this a general US versus the Rest difference? Do you see the same
>>>schism?
>>>mike



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