Has there ever been a writeup of your experience trying to create alternative
interactional educational forms? It seems worth propagating the experience
beyond the xmca discussion.
My colleague Peg Griffin, who was very involved at the start of this work,
like to speak of "in vitro" vs "in vivo" stages of research. Create a new
cultural organism (David Feldman's term) in vitro and then see if it can
survive out in the wild and wormy world. Seems like you found, as we did, that
creating the right medium "in vitro" can be trickier than anticipated, but
informative. Getting from their to in vivo is another matter. This may
be a useful alternative way to think about transfer issue, unless my
ontological glasses are on crooked, which is hard to tell, vision being
a relational matter! :-)
mike