Thanks, Peter
At 09:26 AM 3/19/96 -1000, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I am Renzo Gobbin and I am working at the Faculty of Information Sciences
and Engineering of the University of Canberra in Australia.
>I am researching for my master thesis the relation between tasks to be
performed in collaborative work environments and the social-cultural aspects
of IT tools adoption by human groups.
>I will analyze and compare the evolutionary cognitive aspect of tools usage
in collaborative group activities performed in aboriginal, peasant and
information age societies using a Non-Cartesian methodology.
>
>My research will use a variety of disciplines reflecting my previous
academic studies in philosophy, anthropology, sociology and information
sciences:
>
>Philosophy: Hegel, Heidegger, Habermas, hermeneutics, phenomenology.
>Anthropology: Human ethology and evolutionary sociobiology.
>Cognitive Sciences: Activity Theory, Knowledge acquisition, Collaborative
learning.
>Sociology: socio-cultural aspects of collaborative work, group structure
and organisation.
>IT: CSCW, CSCL and HCI.
>
>Theorist that inspire my interest are: Vigotsky, Kaptelinin, Merleau-Ponty,
Dennett, Gadamer, Hinde, Adorno, Piaget, Searle, Holland, Nisbett, Stich,
Putnam, VanLehn, Carroll etc.ra.
>
>Attachment Converted: C:\EUDORA\GobbinRe.can
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Peter Smagorinsky
University of Oklahoma
College of Education
Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum
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