Jim-- Using the archive and google, you ought to be able to locate xmca's
reading of Leontiev last year (?) and prior discussions of relevance that
might give your reading group a running start.
The question you asked earlier about "must" reading is almost certainly
not answerable by one person on this list. Mohamed elhammoumi has written
provocatively that to understand activity theory, one must read Feurbach
and Marx. There is an interesting paper by Michael Hames tracing Marx
back to Herder and Forward to Vygotsky and cultural-historical psychology,
and certainly, Alfred Lang would urge reading Herder. If Arne Raithel was
with us he would point to PIERCE (in "dos Kapital letters!) :-). Leigh
Star would say Anselm Strauss. Yrjo would chime in with Bateson in addition
to many on that list, etc.
If you had a little time, you could do the whole community a favor by
using a google search on the archive using these and ohter names that
crop up frequently as a search tool and, I'de wager, come up with a great
reading list for a graduate class!
The issue of how to make web-based courses really useful interests many
on this list, and not a few are directly engaged in design and implementation
of such courses which are proliferating rapidly. And that might be the
medium of choice if we were to construct a course here.
In the spring I will be offering a local grad course called "Mediational
Theories of Mind." It will last 10 weeks. I would welcome participation
from anyone on this list, although particiation-by-lurking would probably
not be particularly productive for such an enterprise.
So far as I can tell, our limitations remain social, not technological,
for higher levels of mutual education and support.
mike
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