Re: David Kirshner <CIKIRS who-is-at LSUVM.SNCC.LSU.EDU>

Ellice A Forman (ellice+ who-is-at pitt.edu)
Sun, 28 Dec 1997 19:31:50 -0500 (EST)

Dear David and others,
I have read Phil Agre's comparison of Lave and Walkerdine with great
interest. It helps me see the similarities and differences between the two
approaches.

In the introduction to your Situated Cognition book (pp. 6-7) you contrast
Lave's approach to "framing the individual and the context as mutually
coconstitutive" (p. 6) with the introduction to our Contexts for Learning
book in which we argued for the study of "real people who develop a
variety of interpersonal relationships with one another in the course of
their shared activity in a given institutional context. . ." (p. 7). As I
recall, when we wrote that section we were discussing Jean's way of
viewing individuals and contexts. That's the most obvious place in your
book where the two approaches (if they are two) borrow from each other.

Ellice Forman
University of Pittsburgh