Dear Don--
Thanks a lot for such an useful reference that I'll use in my coming grad
seminar. I've just ordered the book via Amazon.com at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/handle-buy-box=0813391296/book-glance/103-
6914102-4342269
Take care,
Eugene
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bremme Don [mailto:dbremme@mail.whittier.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2000 2:59 PM
> To: 'ematusov@UDel.Edu'
> Cc: 'xmaca@weber.ucsd.edu'
> Subject: RE: is Hugh Mehan's Work On-line?
>
>
> Eugene & others:
> You and others interested in this discussion and Ray's work may
> also want to
> look at Varenne & McDermott (1999), Successful failure: The
> school America
> builds. Boulder, CO: Westview. The book includes a further
> discussion of
> 'Adam,' the kid in the "Acquisition of a child by a learning
> disability," in
> a chapter called "Adam, Adam, Adam, and Adam: The cultural
> construction of
> a learning disability" and "Disability as a cultural fact," along with
> articles that address other culturally constructed forms of 'failure.' I
> strongly recommend it.
>
> Don Bremme
>
> > ----------
> > From: Eugene Matusov
> > Reply To: ematusov@UDel.Edu
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:14 PM
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: RE: is Hugh Mehan's Work On-line?
> >
> > Hi Mary--
> >
> > I just put Ray's paper on Cultural-Historical SIG website. You
> can get at
> > ftp://ematusov.soe.udel.edu/CH-SIG/ I don't have Hugh's paper scanned,
> > unfortunately.
> >
> > As to other reference, Ray wrote a few other interesting papers such
> > Culture
> > as Disability (in A&Q -- I guess), Inarticulateness.
> >
> > Please, let me know what you will find. Time to time my
> students also have
> > focus on this issue.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Eugene
> >
> > PS I just found the references:
> > McDermott, R. (1988). Inarticulateness. In D. Tannen (Ed.),
> Linguistics
> > in
> > context: Connecting observation and understanding: Lectures
> from the 1985
> > LSA/TESOL and NEH institutes. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
> > McDermott, R. P., & Varenne, H. (1996). Culture as disability.
> > Anthropology
> > and Education Quarterly, 23(6), 324-348.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: mary bryson [mailto:brys@unixg.ubc.ca]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:13 PM
> > > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > > Subject: is Hugh Mehan's Work On-line?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi XMCA'ers:
> > >
> > > I am teaching a grad research seminar
> > > (http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/571syll.html), and
> > > discovered, Monday
> > > night that 90% of the students are in the Sp Ed field.
> > > I would like to add a few readings to my syllabus, and most
> > > especially Hugh
> > > Mehan's work on how students are "diagnosed" in team meetings, and
> > > McDermott's "Acquisition of a child by a learning disability".
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of a url to link to online versions of
> either of these
> > > papers?
> > >
> > > Any recommendations of other, similarly socio-cultural
> research studies
> > on
> > > Sp Ed populations?
> > >
> > > Mary
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor, Education, UBC
> > > GenTech Project http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/gentech/
> > > Curriculum Vitae http://www.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/bryson/cv.html
> > >
> > > and coming soon!: http://www.shecan.com
> > >
> > > 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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