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RE: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism
excellent article, thank you for sharing!
eric
From: Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: 11/02/2011 05:20 AM
Subject: RE: [xmca] Jones on Learning under capitalism
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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
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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
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>
>
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> Social Foundations of Education
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> midwife.*
> *-*John Dewey.
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