Re: [xmca] RE: Questions for ISCAR

From: Ed Wall (ewall@umich.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 11 2005 - 14:06:01 PDT


Mike

    There are many ways in which I am somewhat on the border in many
of these conversations. As I read what Ana wrote what came to mind
was some of the work Jean Lave did on the notion of transfer (within
a social and anthropological context). I was wondering how Ana's
questions, if they even do, interface with that body of work. Thus,
it is quite possible I was asking about interfacing between ch/at and
COP (I don't know what COP is - smile - although I presume it has
something to do with social anthropology). I am sure there is a
different emphasis, but the phenomena sound somewhat the same. What
you say about Vrjo sounds interesting. Are those some relevant papers
at xcma?

Ed

>Ed-- I interpret Ana's questionS to involve the issue of transfer and
>relations between
>activities and partipants involvement in those relational connections.
>
>This also connects with Yrjo's characterization of 3rd generation ch/at
>research that
>focuses on connections between activity systems.
>
>Maybe your question could also be interpreted as a request to clarify the
>relations between ch/at
>and COP approaches to knowledge acquisition and transfer??
>mike
>
>On 9/11/05, Ed Wall <ewall@umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>> How does your question interface with the work of Jean Lave and
>> colleagues? A refinement?
>>
>> Ed Wall
>>
>> >I thought this question went to the whole list, but it ended just in
>> >Mike's box. Here it is again:
>> >
>> >
>> > My question is the interaction between different activities: what can be
>> > "taken" from one activity to another? (Old question of the universals)
>> > Also: what can be created only in a combination of several activities.
>> > This is what I mean: we all participate in more than one activity all
>> > the time. Is it possible to learn something in one activity and then use
>> > it in another? In other words: what does it mean to "transport" a
>> > way of
>> > acting, behaving, or thinking from one activity to another?
>> > And - what is a product only of participating in a certain
>> > combination of activities at the same time?
>> >
>> > In my workshop in Sevilla I will explore interaction between the
>> > "imaginary" and the "real" -- passing through in and out, and the
>> > relationships between the two -- and what are the outcomes of this
>> > relationship.
>> >
>> > See you in Sevilla
>> > Ana
>> >
>> >
>> > Mike Cole wrote:
>> >
>> > > You have a question about ch/at you might want answered during
>> > your trip??
>> > > A shame Helena could not come, and odd about that symposium. Odd
>> > about
>> > > the whole
>> > > setup!
>> > >
>> > > See you in Sevilla.
>> > > mike
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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