Hi Mike,
With all my travels I have fallen behind on e-mail. I would be interested in
the srcd symposium, what is its current status? My focus would be on the
issue of internalization as a concern that may reveal some distinctions
among the family of approaches that fall under CHAT. By the way, I liked
your preliminary abstract as it avoided a reliance on too many terms common
to our thought community.
But, if the idea of the symposium has been dropped, that is fine as well,
Vera
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Cole <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 4:25 PM
Subject: srcd interest?
>
> I am in the process of submitting a paper to SRCD and was considering
> submitting a second paper. The deadline is July 30 for electronic
submissions.
>
> The date of the meeting is April 24-27 in Tampa, Florida.
>
> I learned upon reading the convention guidelines carefully that the only
> way to submit a stand along paper is as a poster.... which I may do. But
> I thought that perhaps there is a critical mass of people on xmca who
> might like to organize a symposium.
>
> So, pasted below is a "mock symposium proposal." If no one is interested,
> I will turn it into a poster paper. But hopefully there will be 4-5
> people who would like to join me in a joint exploration of this issue.
> After our planned fall discussion, there ought to be more than enough
> grist for this mill. The question is, are there enough nuts who want to
> go to Tampa in April (remember, AERA is the same month) to have take a
> crake at this topic? :-)
> mike
> -----
> "Competing" theoretical approaches to the relation between
> culture and cognitive development: Kissing cousins or Feuding Siblings?
>
> Over the past decade there has been an explosion of interest
> in developmental research growing out of interest in the writings
> of LS Vygotsky and his students, on the one hand, and various
> American anthropological traditions and the work of American
> pragmatic philosophers on the other, for all of whom the role of culture
in development is a central problematic. It is routine to see the
> concepts of "context," "joint mediated activity," "communities of
practice," "guided participation," "situated cognition" and a variety of
other
> terms grouped as if they shared a common interest in, and orientation
> to, human development. Simultaneously, a close reading of the
> authors assumed to share roughly the "same" theoretical position
> indicates rather marked differences among them.
>
> One major fraction line has been formulated as a difference between those
who focus on "mediated action in context" versus those who focus on
"activity" as a basic unit of analysis. Another common fraction line is
between those who emphasize mediational tools and those who focus on forms
of participation. Yet another set of issues centers on questions of the
ability of one or another such position to deal with issues of power,
gender, and difference more generally.
> Finally, the different perspective often appear to differ with respect to
the extent to which the concepts of development and culture are, or are not,
central to their concerns.
>
> In this symposium will contrast the main theoretical positions within this
group of related theories and the empirical phenomena they study. We will
seek to identify key points of tension which need to be clarified in order
to conduct empirical work that might help distinguish terminological
misunderstandings from theoretical disagreements. Such clarification, we
believe, is necessary if future empirical work on the role of culture in
development is to be usefully pursued.
>
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