Re: [xmca] From Kevin's paper to internal tension and conflict in activity systems

From: deborah downing-wilson (ddowningw@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 25 2006 - 10:07:35 PDT


Interested party here....anything that you think might be pertinent to the
study of undergrad development within service learning contexts.

Thanks

deb

On 7/25/06, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
>
> I've actually got a bunch of these articles, maybe a dozen or so. Next
> time I'm on the right computer, I'll send a listing, and would be happy to
> send a pdf version of any to interested parties. best,Peter
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 09:03:13 -0700
> >From: "deborah downing-wilson" <ddowningw@gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [xmca] From Kevin's paper to internal tension and conflict
> in activity systems
> >To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >
> >"Peter Smagorinsky has a good article on a student becoming a teacher,
> which
> >uses chat, ..."
> >
> >Would someone please send me the full reference on that article?
> >
> >many thanks,
> >
> >deb
> >
> >
> >On 7/25/06, bb <xmca-whoever@comcast.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Kevin,
> >>
> >> In reply to your question, here is something both short and long. On
> my
> >> hard drive I've found an article by Engestrom that seems to go in the
> right
> >> direction -- I actually dislike doing this because its really not a
> very
> >> cohesive and personal response to you, but on the other hand the
> article
> >> seems highly relevant and, having upgraded my workstation OS to fedora
> core
> >> 5, getting it to talk correctly to an exchange server is taking up
> unplanned
> >> time.
> >>
> >> Yrjo's work on tensions in multiple systems of activity is in his
> Learning
> >> by Expanding, located somewhere on the MCA/lchc web site. Several
> years ago
> >> I did a study which used his approach of historical analysis of
> multiple
> >> systems, recognizing tensions in and between them to look at the
> >> simaltaneous development of a person and her contexts. Peter
> Smagorinsky
> >> has a good article on a student becoming a teacher, which uses chat,
> but
> >> not, as I recall, with multiple systems. Peter's or Yrjo's article
> might
> >> be a good place to extend discussion of the issues I think you raise in
> your
> >> paper, although neither has the same focus on language that your paper
> >> has. But then Gordon Wells has a couple articles on activity systems
> and
> >> language, which might bridge the gap.
> >>
> >> bb
> >>
> >> bb
> >>
> >>
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