[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

[Anthony Barra]

Thank you, I'll take a look. Sounds similar to dialectics, little I know of
both.





On Thursday, June 4, 2020, Richard Beach <rbeach@umn.edu> wrote:

> Anthony, the concept of “expansive learning” posits that objects/motive in
> activity are ideally always open to change/transformation—that they are
> never fixed given that as participants encounter new
> contradictions/challenges, they “learn to”/formulate new objects/motives.
> This requires learners to be open to exploring optional actions/tools/norms
> as they redefine/revise their ever expanding objects/motives.
>
> Coping with decades-long racist practices in Minneapolis, requires
> “expansive learning” to continually experiment with new objects/motives
> given that some of the tools/practices attempted in the past haven’t
> necessarily worked, although attempts were made to do so, only to be
> blocked by a timid political leadership
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.startribune.com/in-2008-we-had-a-reform-plan-for-the-mpd-it-got-derailed-by-politics/570998162/__;!!Mih3wA!SLGpQj8PmApHqKlEeH3z-ohB8R76qeqnpglVMrj9N2HOiJRn_QxL9FXpHMmS9eXEdK2Cgg$>
> .
>
> For more on expansive learning theory, see attached reports:
> Engeström,Y., & Sannino, A. (2010). Studies of expansive learning:
> Foundations, findings and future challenges. *Educational Research
> Review, 5*, 1–24.
> Sannino, A., Engeström, Y., & Lemos, M. (2016). Formative interventions
> for expansivelearning and transformative agency. *Journal of the Learning
> Sciences, 25*(4), 599-633.
>
>
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