Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education, UBC
GenTech Project http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech/
>To alter efficacy-based futility requires development of competencies and
>expectations of personal effectiveness. By contrast, to change
>outcome-based futility necessitates changes in prevailing environmental
>contingencies that restore the instrumental value of the competencies
>people already possess. Bandura-- 1977
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>From: Robert Serpell <serpell who-is-at umbc.edu>
>To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
>Subject: signing off, confused and invigorated
>Date: Sun, Nov 21, 1999, 2:29 PM
>
> Bye for now, folks !
> I'm signing off for a while, as I have to travel to a conference in
> Switzerland (on transformation vs reform in education in the South :
> http://www.unifr.ch/ipg/ecodoc/conferences/intervenants_interculturel.htm),
> and when I get back I shall be snowed under with grading, probably till
> the end of the year.
>
> I shall miss the stimulation of xmca, but I am gratefully carrying away
> with me many rich ideas, not least Bill Barowy's "confusion deficit"
> theory of the zpd ! All power to recognizing that every generation of
> children sees and reminds us grown-ups of what we mostly find too tough to
> tolerate !
>
> Robert
>
> Robert Serpell tel: ( 410 ) 455 2417
> Psychology Department 455 2567
> University of Maryland Baltimore County
> 1000 Hilltop Circle
> Baltimore MD 21250 fax: ( 410 ) 455 1055
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