Re: [xmca] praise and criticism: chinese-American comparison

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Hi Yuan--

How does adopting neo-Piagetian perspective account for the role of culture
in children's understanding of the social world differently than a
culural-historical
perspective? How does adopting this alternative approach shape the kind of
data
you collect?  These seem like really important questions that should, if the
approaches are actually different, lead to different theoretical claims and
different types of data collection.

Seems like is right at this juncture that talk about theory and talk about
"methodology" (the ensemble of methods that link theory and data and each
other) stop being idle chat (small c!) and become of practical significance.

Warmest new year greetings.
mike

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 11:05 PM, yuan lai <laiyuantaiwan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike, I just checked my emails since I posted my wild idea on what the
> equivalent of meta-analysis in qualitative data would look like, and other
> ramblings. My new year's resolution is do lots of listening in.
>
>  Thanks for the article of Miller et al. I like it very much. Narrative is
> a powerful socializing tool. I take it that children's telling
> autobiographical stories with what audience and co-narrators and in what
> situations, and how the stories evolve, has much potential for researching
> child development. It seems to me that conformity to group norms versus
> nurturing of individuality explains well the roles of criticism and
> praise/self-esteem, as you suggested in the thread title.
>
> Yuan
>
> p.s. I'm here not to learn the discourse of xmca per se (just in case it
> may sound alarming), but that of socio-historical approaches. My
> dissertation is about children's understanding of the social world and
> applies a neo-Piagetian perspective.
>
> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> More on the issue of the discourse patterns in Chinese & American
>> socialization attached for them who
>> cares.
>> mike
>>
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