woops -- this was misdirected. sorry.
At 12:24 PM 11/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The website is wonderful! A terrific resource for teachers. Congratulations
>to those who contributed to it.
>
>Judy
>
>At 08:37 AM 11/5/00 -0700, you wrote:
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>> Judy scrobe:
>>
>>>What I had in mind was that ideologies are coherent; activity systems are
>>>by definition riven with contradictions that unsettle the terms in which
>>>they're known -- so while ideologies are always in play, within the
>>>activity system that is subjected to an activity theory analysis, the
>>>contradictions that emerge in the course of "moving ahead" override/
>>>challenge/ test whatever system of belief might otherwise sustain the
>>>status quo.
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>> i like this - and i would suppose that theories like ideologies are
>>coherent - and the practices based on the theories are "riven with
>>contradictions" - which would go a long way in describing the
>>inconsistencies between educational theories proposed by academia/teacher
>>educators which _are_ so marvelously coherent - and the contradictions
>>faced by the classroom teacher when attempting to work classroom activitis
>>based on particular theories - the resistance by the students, the
>>architecture, the administration, the parents is from subtle to highly
>>obvious - but resistant. even the teacher's own unexpected resistance
>>-
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>>>Since I have never done an analysis on a system wider than the
>>>classroom, and I haven't used AT as a mean of intervention, I am
>>>projecting/ speculating about how it would, really, work.
>>>
>> being a proponent of teacher-research, why not research your own practice
>> - and use activity theory for the interventions you would bring to your
>>own teaching practices?
>>
>> it is snowing - i took a long walk last night - a bright half moon -
>>cloudless starry night - starry starry night ..... - fed apples to the
>>horses down it the fields where the town just ends - woke up this
>>morning to three inches of snow on the ground - the valley engulfed in
>>whirls of snow obscuring the mountains - very comforting looking out the
>>windows over a snowy world - wood burning fires in the stoves - coffee
>>and hot toast - bliss.
>>
>>phillip
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>>* * * * * * * *
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>>The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
>>Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
>>The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
>>buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
>>"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
>>reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
>>"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
>>repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
>>it means.
>>
>> from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
>>Mendelsohn.
>>
>>phillip white
>>third grade teacher
>>doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
>>scrambling a dissertation
>>denver, colorado
>>phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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