[Xmca-l] Re: History(ies) of this discourse community and futures past

[Greg Thompson]

Helena and others,
In the event you would like to see the full report, here is the link to the
link for the Carnegie report:
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Histarch/carnegie_rpt.html

Cheers,
The links guy

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:22 PM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Hi Helena--
>
> There are a couple of fuller discussions of the funding shenanigans that
> began in the Reagan era on the lchc web site. The Carnegie report is the
> first item on the history/archive page. The actual events were rawer than
> we put in print at the time, and the report is almost certainly more than
> most people want to read, but you can see how things looked from where LCHC
> stood in 1984.
>
> The general topic of funding in relationship to reigning ideologies is
> certainly worth the attention of people on this list.
>
> Last I heard, Eva was busy weaving in Sweden.
> mike
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I have now read the Gack and Finkelstein 1992 piece, The Seeds of XLCHC,
> > and most of Eva Ekblad's 1998 piece, Contact, Community and Multilogue:
> > Communication in the Practice of Scholarship, up to the section
> "Relations
> > of Interweaving and Tension".
> >
> > There is a lot to think about here.  However, I feel some urgency to find
> > out more about this statement, which is in a quote on page 3-4 of Gack
> and
> > Finkelstein:
> >
> > Only grant proposals that de-emphasized social factors in favor
> > of individual change, or which promoted new technologies
> > in a culturally neutral way, won support (Carnegie, 40)
> >
> > There is no entry for Carnegie in the References on page 49. However, on
> > the timeline at the back of the paper there is a mention of a 1984
> Carnegie
> > interim report and a 1985 request for funding.
> >
> > I am interested to see "social factors" opposed to "individual change." I
> > assume social factors include things like race, poverty, diversity in a
> > classroom. "Individual change" would be the kind of things that are
> > measured by standardized tests.
> >
> > I would like to know if it's possible to track the overall de-funding of
> > research on social factors and the shift to focus on individual change
> into
> > the present time.  At what point did it stop even being a topic that
> people
> > talked about?
> >
> > The unspoken phrase, from my point of view, is "collective change," in
> the
> > sense that social factors affect collective change (and collective
> > learning), whereas what affects individual change is inherent personal
> > factors. So the study of social contexts, specifically learning and
> > development in their social context, is a politically charged topic.
> >
> > Am I on the right track, here?
> >
> > I will read the rest of Eva's paper soon. She's one of the most brilliant
> > people ever to have been on this list. Where is she now?
> >
> > Helena Worthen
> > 510-828-2845
> > helenaworthen@gmail.com
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal with a natural science with an
> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
>



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