[Xmca-l] Re: Kollontai

[JULIE WADDINGTON]

Right.


> Luria liked to say that the object of scientific research is to see an
> object from as many sides as possible, an idea that has always applied for
> me with respect to my own research that affords both kinds of analysis
> simultaneously.  An example would be in *The Psychology of Literacy,
> *where
> we were tasked with answering the question, "what are the psychological
> consequences of becoming literate?" Three, arguably four literacies in a
> single population at a single point in history. Without a year of on the
> ground ethnography joined in a second year by a use of survey accumulated
> from a variety of sources, a third year of continued survey collection and
> conduct of some targeted experimental-psychological-style research
> motivated by the ethnography and survey results, a fourth year of
> collecting data based on the idea that in experiments, one should design
> one's experiment as models of cultural practices, not models of
> school-based practices.
>
> Multiple regression on quantifiable data provided a lot of good
> information
> about how to dig deeper into what was giving rise to the numbers. And its
> great having the experience of doing all that
> (once) fancy arithmetic because because its so fungible. I ended up
> thinking of the use of multiple  regression as "hermeneutic regression
> anlysis. "-)
>
> Now the results and our arguments may seem like so much flim flam today.
> After all, its ancient history. But in the process of the doing, from
> thinking about the problem in the first place, to hiring people with the
> requisite expertise to participate, to designing models of cultural
> practices, we always found that looking at the phenomena from a number of
> different perspectives simultaneously a great tool of thought.
>
> At XMCA we may be wrong, but there is not a single stupid person to be
> found here but a lot of smart people who have something to learn from each
> other. Something like what we tell our students the first days of
> lectures:
> "There are no dumb questions here."
>
> Right?
> mike
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 2:30 PM Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:
>
>> I’m not sure what the “it” is, Huw. My way of thinking? My
>> writing?  :)
>>
>> You’re suggesting, perhaps, that quality is more basic than quantity?
>> Hopefully you’re not reverting to the view that “qualia” are the
>> basic
>> elements of experience?
>>
>> But I’m just making guesses about what it is you want to communicate.
>> A
>> bit stupefied, it’s true.
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 3:50 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> It perpetuates a stupefaction. It obscures what quality is.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 17:40, Martin Packer <mpacker@cantab.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I don’t think I’d say that there are “qualitative issues,” Huw.
>>> The way I
>>> think about it, there are simply “issues,” and these can be grasped
>>> using a
>>> qualitative approach or using a quantitative approach (or both).
>>> Although
>>> my own writing has been oriented to understanding and explaining
>>> qualitative research, I don’t underestimate the power and usefulness
>>> of
>>> quantitative research. One simply has to know what it is one is
>>> counting.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 10:07 AM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Yes, "than". Whoever heard of a good paper that doesn't take
>>> qualitative
>>> issues as primary?
>>>
>>> Huw
>>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:52, Helena Worthen <helenaworthen@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think that was just a typo — “that” for “than.”
>>>>
>>>> H
>>>>
>>>> Helena Worthen
>>>> helenaworthen@gmail.com
>>>> Berkeley, CA 94707 510-828-2745
>>>> Blog US/ Viet Nam:
>>>> helenaworthen.wordpress.com
>>>> skype: helena.worthen1
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 24, 2018, at 10:46 AM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  I thought the announcement was completely relevant Elizabeth    There
>>>> are many fine scholars in this discussion group who could qualify for
>>>> those
>>>> awards and letting them know was generous on your part
>>>> Just my 2 pence
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:24 AM Dr. Elizabeth Fein <feine@duq.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all - Sorry if that announcement was irrelevant. We're trying to
>>>>> cast a wide net with these awards, reaching scholars who may be doing
>>>>> psychology in a way that may not fall within the APA mainstream but
>>>>> deserves to be recognized within APA. Although I'm writing as a
>>>>> member of
>>>>> the qualitative sub-division, we include both sets of awards out of
>>>>> respect
>>>>> for our division-mates. I'll refrain from sending these in the
>>>>> future.
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Elizabeth
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:16 AM Huw Lloyd
>>>>> <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Sounds more on topic that a request for nominations for
>>>>>> "qualitative"
>>>>>> and "quantitative" methods.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> According to this source
>>>>>> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flibcom.org%2Ffiles%2FThe%2520Workers%27%2520Opposition%2520-%2520Alexandra%2520Kollontai.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Cfeine%40duq.edu%7C45e088e131ab41b9a81108d639bb3925%7C12c44311cf844e4195c38df690b1eb61%7C0%7C0%7C636759873622647356&sdata=D2FAuJB7QyA93j6e%2FFyosEctmHut9pFEqabpGZOfPU0%3D&reserved=0>
>>>>>> it was first published in Pravda, January 25 1921. There appear to
>>>>>> be many
>>>>>> Pravda archives available online, affiliated with libraries etc. The
>>>>>> New
>>>>>> York Public Library appears to have a full archive, although it
>>>>>> requires a
>>>>>> library card/login for access.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Huw
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 13:41, Andy Blunden <andyb@marxists.org>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is very off-topic, for which I apologise.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Does anyone have access to a copy of Alexandra Kollontai's "The
>>>>>>> Workers Opposition" in Russian?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>> Andy Blunden
>>>>>>> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
>>>>>>> <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ethicalpolitics.org%2Fablunden%2Findex.htm&data=02%7C01%7Cfeine%40duq.edu%7C45e088e131ab41b9a81108d639bb3925%7C12c44311cf844e4195c38df690b1eb61%7C0%7C0%7C636759873622647356&sdata=9st82nYCh4D1nw%2FaalsWJLsPVnkjMlvYC4fwiGTEhhw%3D&reserved=0>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Elizabeth Fein, Ph.D.
>>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>>> Department of Psychology
>>>>> Duquesne University
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> Martin
>>
>> *"I may say that whenever I meet Mrs. Seligman or Dr. Lowie or discuss
>> matters with Radcliffe-Brown or Kroeber, I become at once aware that my
>> partner does not understand anything in the matter, and I end usually
>> with
>> the feeling that this also applies to myself” (Malinowski, 1930)*
>>
>>
>>
>>
>


Dra. Julie Waddington
Departament de Didàctiques Específiques
Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia
Universitat de Girona