Here's the ms. Version, which may have been edited on its way to publication. p -----Original Message----- From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Helena Worthen Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:46 PM To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: Re: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism Robert, do you have the link for the Smagorinsky article? Helena Helena Worthen helena.worthen@berkeley.edu 21 San Mateo Road Berkeley, CA 94707 Visiting Scholar, UCB Center for Labor Research and Education 510-828-2745 On Nov 1, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Robert Lake wrote: > *Hi Everyone,* > *Don't forget this from Peter Smagorinsky (See below).* > * > * > *Robert Lake* > > In case anyone's interested, I coauthored a book chapter on Freire and > Vygotsky. In my view, they're a hard pair to match, as we outline in > the chapter. I don't have the final pdf but am attaching the last > version I have of the manuscript during editing. > The reference: > Souto-Manning, M., & Smagorinsky, P. (2010). Freire, Vygotsky, and > social justice theories in English education. In sj Miller & D. > Kirkland (Eds.), Change matters: Critical essays on moving social > justice research from theory to policy (pp. 41-51). New York: Peter Lang. > > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Tony Whitson <twhitson@udel.edu> wrote: > >> I don't know of anyone who's analyzed Freire in terms of CHAT, but it >> would really interesting. >> >> In Freire's alphabetization/**conscientization work with adult >> peasants, the motivation for the activity is not literacy itself. >> Literacy is attained as a means for conducting the activity that is >> constructed in pursuit of motivating objects that are identified by >> the learners themselve; and there is a systematic use of written >> artefacts mediating the activity. >> >> On Tue, 1 Nov 2011, Silvio Marquardt wrote: >> >> Dear Ana, >>> >> >> Could you "situate" Freire`s statement within the activity system ? >> "Critical reading" as "Activity" seems to be something worth trying. >> How far is the "Freire-CHAT" debate up to now ? >> >> Yours, Silvio >> >> ______________________________**__ >> From: Ana Paula B. R. Cortez <apbrcortez@yahoo.com.br> >> To: Haydi Zulfei <haydizulfei@rocketmail.com>; "eXtended Mind, >> Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu> >> Sent: Wednesday, 2 November 2011 12:10 AM >> Subject: Re: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism >> >> Hello, everyone! >> >> Here is Freire's definition of reading, in "Carta de Paulo Freire aos >> professores" (Freire's letter to teachers - In Portuguese at: >> http://www.scielo.br/scielo.**php?script=sci_arttext&pid=** >> S0103-40142001000200013<http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_ar >> ttext&pid=S0103-40142001000200013> >> ) >> >> >> "Ler é uma operação inteligente, difícil, exigente, mas gratificante. >> Ninguém lê ou estuda autenticamente se não assume, diante do texto ou do >> objeto da curiosidade a forma crítica de ser ou de estar sendo sujeito >> da curiosidade, sujeito da leitura, sujeito do processo de conhecer em >> que se acha. Ler é procurar buscar criar a compreensão do lido; daí, >> entre outros pontos fundamentais, a importância do ensino correto da >> leitura e da escrita. É que ensinar a ler é engajar-se numa experiência >> criativa em torno da compreensão. Da compreensão e da comunicação." >> >> My free translation of the extract: >> >> >> "Reading is an intelligent, difficult, demanding, but gratifying >> operation. Nobody authentically reads or studies if, facing the text >> or the object of his/her curiosity, he/she doesn't take a critical >> stance as the subject of curiosity, the subject of reading, the >> subject of the process of knowing where he/she is. Reading is to try >> to create the understanding of what's being read; therefore, among >> other crucial points, there lies the importance of teaching reading >> and writing in a correct way. Teaching how to read means engaging in a creative experience revolving understanding. >> Understanding and communication." >> >> Well, I don't think there is anything else to comment about it. >> Enjoy! >> Ana Paula Cortez >> __________________________________________ >> _____ >> xmca mailing list >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca >> >> > > > -- > *Robert Lake Ed.D. > *Assistant Professor > Social Foundations of Education > Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading Georgia Southern > University P. O. Box 8144 > Phone: (912) 478-5125 > Fax: (912) 478-5382 > Statesboro, GA 30460 > > *Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its > midwife.* > *-*John Dewey. > __________________________________________ > _____ > 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
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