Jay's suggestions seem very practical and responsive to potential
student interests and concerns. I shall be happy to work within that
format. A pre-seeion single day would provide ample opportunity to
include the various suggested activities Jay suggests. Shorter
sessions within the conference might have less cumulative benefit.
Gordon
>Thanks to Judy's persistence and initiative, it seems likely that
>there will be SOMETHING in the way of a mentoring and learning
>opportunity about CHAT for grad students at AERA in Chicago next
>spring.
>
>Hopefully Gordon Wells, Stanton Wortham, Vera John-Steiner, and I
>will be available in some combination of more and less structured
>formats to talk with students about their interests and questions
>and our own work and approaches.
>
>It remains to be seen whether the preference of those who'd like to
>participate is more for a mini-course (more time listening to the
>senior researchers, more specific goals of learning particular
>concepts or techniques), a workshop (looking together at data and
>research issues around some concrete instances), or a more informal
>mentoring opportunity (chat about CHAT: the people, the current
>issues, research agendas, history, future of the field). All these
>could be combined in some way.
>
>I myself am not particularly inclined towards a teaching-oriented
>"course", and if it's all-day or four-hours, I would probably not be
>able to be there for all of it. What I am interested in is the
>informal interaction with grad students, finding out what they want
>to know more about, and answering questions or setting up a means
>for continuing dialogue. I'd be happy to:
>
>= talk a bit about my view of CHAT and its relationship to similiar
>perspectives, e.g. social semiotics, discourse analysis, dynamical
>sociocultural theories that cross from micro to macro; this could
>include discussing some critiques of CHAT
>
>= enter into discussions with others about issues such as CHAT and
>more or less compatible perspectives and issues, e.g.
>gender/sexuality, social conflict, social organization,
>ethnomethodology and CA, phenomenology, hermeneutics, etc.
>
>= talk about new directions in my own current research, what I see
>as important research questions and agendas for the future, such as
>material and symbolic connections across timescales for activity and
>social processes, embedding multimedia semiotic tools in larger
>activity agendas including educational ones, formulating more
>clearly the relationships among notions of activity, identity, and
>social categorization (such as class, gender, race, age,
>ethnicity/culture, etc.).
>
>If Judy is going to submit some sort of formal proposal to AERA, she
>needs some input from all of us ahead of a Sept 13 deadline (and her
>own impending house move at the end of this month) regarding:
>format(s), emphasis, content. My sense is that if the community
>gives us some guidance the organizers of the event can then make key
>choices and Judy can fashion a coherent proposal.
>
>Whatever is proposed officially, I think we can still improvise a
>bit at the actual event to be responsive to what people find they
>want closer to the time of AERA itself.
>
>"What do you think?" -- 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>
>---------------------------
-- Gordon Wells UC Santa Cruz. gwells@cats.ucsc.edu http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/
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