Since the feedback on inviting D. Holland continues, let me add a small
piece to it. Her works on the self are actually beautifully congruent with
Activity Theory (explicitly so), and expanding the latter in very
interesting directions (including Leontiev's works). Her works are among the
readings I always recommend to the students as a 'must' and use them in my
classes. So, yes, it is a great choice.
Anna
-----Original Message-----
From: Ellice Forman
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu; ch-sig@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 7/5/2002 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: AERA SIG themes, speakers
I strongly endorse Jay's suggestion (which originated with Deborah's
suggestion) and seconded by Yrjo that Dottie Holland be an invited
speaker
and/or symposium organizer for one of the CHAT-SIG AERA slots. I
understand
that I may not be helping Bill maintain the official rules of order in
establishing a voting system but I couldn't help myself. I've been
finding
her work very useful recently and would love to hear more from her.
Ellice Forman
--On Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:07 AM +0300 Yrjö Engeström
<yrjo.engestrom@helsinki.fi> wrote:r
> I strongly endorse Jay's suggestion. Dottie Holland is an excellent
> choice!
>
> Yrjo Engestrom
>
>
>
>
>> [This is a contribution to the CHAT-SIG discussion on themes for the
next
>> AERA .... a nominated theme was identities and subjectivities in CHAT
>> and a possible speaker being considered is Dorothy Holland ...]
>>
>>
>>
>> I looked a bit into Dorothy Holland's work (of course I've come
across it
>> in the past, but not the recent work) at:
>>
>> http://www.unc.edu/depts/anthro/faculty/fac_pages/holland.html
>>
>> where she describes:
>>
>> Present Research: My theoretical interests revolve around identity,
>> agency and social change, particularly social movements. Several
>> colleagues and I have just published Identity and Agency in Cultural
>> Worlds (1998, Harvard), a book, which along with a co-edited volume,
>> History in Person: Enduring Struggles and the Practice of Identity
>> (2001, School of American Research Press), articulates a social
practice
>> theory of identity. Two previous co-edited volumes, The Cultural
>> Production of the Educated Person (1996, SUNY) and Selves in Time and
>> Place: Identities, Experience and History in Nepal (1998, Rowman &
>> Littlefield Publishers) pursue similar issues in relation to
education
>> and in Nepali studies.
>> The above projects, "Estrangement from the Public Sphere," and the
study
>> of the U.S. environmental movement, are large, collaborative
ventures.
>> Both projects investigate the new conditions for political and
cultural
>> activism and the importance of environmental issues in the public
>> sphere. They also ask how social movements inhabit people's lives,
>> becoming not only viable communities of practice but enduring
cultural
>> forms of desire.
>>
>> Not too much of this directly deals with education, but perhaps that
>> would offer a useful counterpoint at AERA. Though among her writings
>> there are:
>>
>> Levinson, B., D. Foley and D. Holland, eds. (1996). The Cultural
>> Production of the Educated Person: Critical Ethnographies of
Schooling
>> and Local Practice. (State University of New York Press)
>>
>> Holland, D. and M. Eisenhart. (1990) Educated in Romance: Women,
>> Achievement, and College Culture. (The University of Chicago Press)
>>
>> Interesting also is the theoretical work growing out of this, from
>> Holland, D. and M. Cole (1995) Between Discourse and Schema:
>> Reformulating a Cultural-Historical Approach to Culture and Mind.
>> Anthropology and Education Quarterly 26(4):1-16.
>> to
>> Holland, D., and J. Lave (2001), eds. History in Person: Enduring
>> Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities (The School of
>> American Research Press)
>>
>> I would also be very happy to listen to Deborah Hicks talk about the
fits
>> and misfits between her work on Bakhtin and CHAT approaches.
>>
>> I had the feeling at ISCRAT that a lot of people, especially younger
>> researchers, want to hear some CRITIQUE of classic CHAT approaches
and
>> some sense of WHAT ELSE we should be looking at and how to add it to,
>> modify, transform, transgress from the models that are now dominant
to
>> those that will come next .....
>>
>> I think that many people in the field believe that issues of
identity,
>> subjectivities, and their dialogical construction within
>> culturally-historically specific activities, as well as their
>> transformative potential for such activities, for culture and for
>> history, are important areas to talk about more in a CHAT context.
>> Seeing identities as relational invokes the activities, the
inter-linked
>> different activities, across which our interactions with various
>> partners, in various roles, make us the persons who act in these
>> activities as we do. The trajectories of individual lives, and group
>> biographies, weave connections across activity types and sites,
>> sometimes in new ways that play a role in sociogenesis, cultural
change,
>> and history.
>>
>> I was particularly fascinated by a brief mention previously of
focusing
>> on atypical life-trajectories, the role of the transgressive in
making
>> change.
>>
>> Whoever has interesting things to say on these matters is who I'd
like to
>> hear talking in Chicago ....
>>
>> JAY.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------
>> JAY L. LEMKE
>> PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION
>> CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
>> JLLBC@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
>> <http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/index.htm>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>>
>
>
Ellice Ann Forman
Department of Psychology in Education
University of Pittsburgh
5C01 WWPH
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
(412) 648-7022
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