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Thanks Peter-- We have a growing list of relevant refs, Keith's work being among them. The difficulties of making and sustaining clear distinctions in this area seem acute. mike On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:08 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote: > Mike et al., I know that Keith Sawyer has taken a sociocultural view of > creativity. See e.g. http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/46.html > > Perhaps not the exact same thing, but Karen Gallas has written about > imagination. > > http://books.google.com/books?id=EY2WRwXZukkC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=karen+gallas > > +imagination&source=bl&ots=f8GUbGkpHu&sig=IGoLqmObXXyIee-iCheVjaRRsLU&hl=en& > ei=pMoXSq7xAZSNtgfX5PzfDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1<http://books.google.com/books?id=EY2WRwXZukkC&pg=PT1&lpg=PT1&dq=karen+gallas%0A+imagination&source=bl&ots=f8GUbGkpHu&sig=IGoLqmObXXyIee-iCheVjaRRsLU&hl=en&%0Aei=pMoXSq7xAZSNtgfX5PzfDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1> > > or perhaps more simple from the URL standpoint: > > http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Imagination-and-Literacy/Karen-Gallas/e/978 > 0807744055/?itm=2<http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Imagination-and-Literacy/Karen-Gallas/e/978%0A0807744055/?itm=2> > > Peter Smagorinsky > Professor of English Education and Program Coordinator > The University of Georgia > 125 Aderhold Hall > Athens, GA 30602 > smago@uga.edu > http://www.coe.uga.edu/lle/faculty/smagorinsky/index.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On > Behalf Of Mike Cole > Sent: Friday, May 22, 2009 7:02 PM > To: eXtended Mind, Culture,Activity > Cc: Bud Mehan > Subject: [xmca] Two off topic requests for info > > Blessed three day weekend coming up and the opportunity to re-enter many > ongoing conversations. > > Two requests for information. > > 1. I am looking for a reference to the social nature of creativity, in the > sense of "retrospecitive construction" > through social interaction, of novelty as newly created cultural formation. > > 2. I am looking for references to a phenomenon which I have been > encountering for some time, and am sure is > ubiquitous, but do not know published data on. LCHC works with kids who > tend > to do poorly in school. For some > time now part of that work has involved us in helping with homework (See > Nocon and Cole on school invades afterschool > if this aspect of the matter is of interest). > > Anyway, we have very well documented evidence that a child at, say, grade 3 > is being asked and expected to do homework > assignments which are too hard in a mixture of ways that are linked to > absence of well mastered subroutines. Example, a child > is asked to subract 108 from 215. One issue is "borrowing". You need to > subtract 8 from 15 and replaced the 0 in 108 by a 9. But > this child, who understands this feature of the task (lets suppose) cannot > tell you what 15-8 and cannot work it out in a short period > of time if at all. > > Generalized, the issue is that to "keep up" in school, the child must both > do her homework correctly or get smacked down AND must > somehow also acquire rapid and efficient means of completing the sub-tasks > involved which she has not mastered. The pedagogical challenge then > becomes (to eggregiously simplify) how to hold the child in the activity at > the "higher" level while "filling in" at the lower level. > > References anyone, please? > > It is memorial day weekend in the united states. In my class of 25 students > work with kids at our after school site no one knew what they > were supposed to remember on memorial day or where the holiday came from. > Something to do with death and soldiers. With children being > killed by other children in the neighborhood of our researchsite it was, a > very sad, teachable moment. > > Civil war? What civil war? > mike > _______________________________________________ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > > _______________________________________________ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca