[Xmca-l] Re: Sociocritical theory a la Kris G

[mike cole]

That covers a lot of territory not to connect with, Henry!  :-)
But it is interesting and relevant that you found Engestrom useful because
both Kris and I have worked with him over the years, so there must be
something in common there.

So what if i said that imagination is always a mashup? Would that help make
connections?
Check out the article that Engestrom and i wrote together on approaches to
intervention research and the approach called "design experimentation."
That would be a bridge to what Kris is talking about.

This is a time when a lot can change, for sure.

mike



On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 3:15 PM, HENRY SHONERD <hshonerd@gmail.com> wrote:

> Luisa and Mike,
> My depth of knowledge in the xmca chat, its foundations, is much shallower
> than yours, so the articles by Pelaprat and Cole and Gutierrez don’t evoke
> nearly the connections for me, I am sure, but enough that I think it worth
> sharing. In reading the Pelaprat&Cole article (Gap and Imagination) AND
> Gutierrez I came across Engstrom in the bibliography. I found his article
> on Expansive Learning on the internet. It brings to my mind the idea of
> “mashing up” that David K., I believe, likes to use. As well it brings to
> my mind Langacker’s notion of symbolic assemblies, which brings together
> grammar and discourse (i.e., usage-based grammar) unshackled by grammar as
> static constituency. Furthermore, I work with urban Indians in a charter
> school here in Albuquerque. I am convinced that dialog a al Bakhtin,
> Freire, and Horton are the key to what I am trying to do, perhaps as much
> as many of you are trying to do with this chat. In light of the ferment in
> the country over the killings of unarmed Black men, there is hope now for
> the kind of flourishing that Andy’s article talks about in the article that
> he has sent to us recently on a number of occasions. I hope this email does
> not seem ungrounded, rather that it adds one more voice to a call for
> relevance and relationship, without a loss of rigor.
> Henry
>
> > On Dec 10, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Luisa Aires <laires11@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Mike and ALL
> >
> > Thank you for sharing Kris´ thoughts about culture, education, literacy,
> > development...
> > This text evokes me the foundations of xmca - to deconstruct the origins
> of
> > the historical-cultural theory and expand it with scientific, social,
> > cultural, historical contemporary thoughts and movements.
> >
> > Kris shares with us a huge and rich lecture, a pedagogical framework that
> > could mediate very rich xmca discussions. Let me mention some powerful
> > constructs that we could discuss:
> > - Third space
> > - Nondominant communities
> > - ZPD
> > - Zo –ped (a “wonderful” construct)
> > - Literacy - sociocritical literacy
> > - Grounding theoretical concepts
> > - Sincretic testimonios
> > - Reframing learning, teaching, education, development
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > All the best,
> > Luísa
> >
> > 2014-12-10 18:38 GMT+00:00 mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu>:
> >
> >> I would like to pick up on Dana's call for continued discussion of
> politics
> >> and power in relation to theorizing the role of culture in human
> >> development.
> >>
> >> To this end, Kris says its ok to publish her Scribner lecture on this
> topic
> >> (and warnst that she has a new and better version of her thinking
> waiting
> >> in the wings).
> >>
> >> So, attached is Kris's paper as a common grounding for a discussion. If
> >> you-all would stick to the subject line, or when you feel the urge,
> >> create a new, related, subject line, if you would so label it, such
> measure
> >> might stabilize an always heterochronous discussion.
> >>
> >> If others have alternative suggestions, speak up!
> >>
> >> mike
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal with a natural science with an
> >> object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Department of Education and Distance Learning, Universidade Aberta
> > Centre of Studies on Migrations and Intercultural Relations (CEMRI)
> > R. Amial, nº 752, 4200-055 Porto, Portugal
> > laires@uab.pt
> > www.uab.pt
>
>
>


-- 
It is the dilemma of psychology to deal with a natural science with an
object that creates history. Ernst Boesch.