XMCA Mail 2001_06: Re: 1987

I most recall that I felt/was totally disconnected from CHAT after my
independent readings of LSV and what was available then with Jim W., C&
Scribner..
Trying to tie my interests and res. on parent-child interaction to zpd, I.Q.
etc .. And going to Peru for a year (87 extended to 1988 in a Fulby) to
teach educ. prog design and eval.

I focused on crosscult. differences but with schooled participants on both
ends, using c.& Bruner's 1971 piece as a guide..

I was most isolated and just discovering xmca, pissing off regulars with my
inept communicado's to mike whom I met at aera then, I recall his
encouragement, a flash of rare warmth, and soon after, this virtual comm.
made this locoa-ya'wlkle situ here much more bearable. In sum, I began to be
a prof. lurker round that time and xmca activity started transforming the
object of my soc. interaction research.

> Dear colleagues, some of my afterthoughts to Learning by Expanding are
> included in a new introduction which I wrote for the German and Japanese
> editions of LBE, which both appeared in 1999. The new intro was actually
> written in 1997, that's why it was titled 'ten years after'. I suppose it
is
> included in the web version of the book - at least I sent it to Nate.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yrjo Engestrom
>
> > From: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:15:47 -0700 (PDT)
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: 1987
> >
> >
> > I am curious about people's association with the year, 1987. What were
> > various of xmca's members doing in 1987? What theories were they using
> > to guide research? What research were they doing?
> >
> > Brief summaries would be really helpful to discusion of a book written,
I
> > presume, between 1985-1987.
> >
> > for myself, I can contribute the following.
> >
> > In 1986-1987 I was on sabbatical leave at the Chid Dev unit of the
Britisyh
> > Research Council in England. Cultural psychology, or sociocultural
psychology,
> > or Vygotsky, or anything connected with such ideas was incomprehensible
> > to almost all the people I talked to.
> >
> > I was dividing my time between trying to write a book that, 9 years
later,
> > was published as *Cultural psychology........*, not a title of my
choosing,
> > but the best that could be arranged on the spot, with 60 seconds to make
up
> > my mind about how to change the title I had selected.
> >
> > And, 18 hour a day efforts to establish "normal" working relationships
with
> > colleagues in the Soviet Academy of sciences using the, then, exotic
medium,
> > of email.
> >
> > I also spent a couple of months working on my book./lectures in
copenhagen
> > which a few faithful friends heard through from beginning to end.
> >
> > It would take me 10 years to finish the book which became *Cultural
> > Psychology....
> > ........" in 1996.
> >
> >
> > In the spring of 1987 Yrjo completed his doctoral thesis which is the ms
> > we have been reading, LBE.
> >
> > Those of us left alive at now 14 years older. We interpret the text
written
> > then through our respective personalities and experience.
> >
> > What are they? Having some idea whould help me understand the discusion.
> > mike
> >
>

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