Sorry, we haven't had a chance to upload. We're driving home today. He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm. --- Johann Wolfgang Goethe Emily Duvall, PhD Assistant Professor, Curriculum & Instruction Assistant Professor, Neuroscience Director, Northwest Inland Writing Project University of Idaho 1031 N. Academic Way Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 -----Original Message----- From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Greg Thompson Sent: Tue 4/17/2012 10:02 PM To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity Subject: Re: [xmca] AERA Updates Any news on where the video of the session "Play across the LIfespan..." (sorry I've forgotten the title of the panel) is posted? larry, I very much appreciate your post on form and play. i have a lot to say but no time to say it. Hopefully sometime soon. cheers, -greg On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 AM, Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Emily and all the wonderful folks that gathered together to play > yesterday. > > It was a wonderful inspiring and thought provoking evening last night. > There is a slightly different quality to be meeting everyone in real > space/place :-} > I would like to share Lois' reflections that she offered last night and > invite other to come out and play. > > Lois was describing her experience of attending a TED conference and her > impression that scientists with their *objects* seemed to be having so much > more fun with their FORM of play and she invited us to reflect on why this > was so? She also expressed a hope that we could learn to play like the > scientists who were obviously having such fun. > This offering of Lois to us went with a reflection that play extended > beyond epistemology and was an ontological expression of being/becoming. > > [Lois, as I write I'm questioning if I should be addressing you personally > or addressing *us* ] > > This question of who to address leads me to further reflections on the > interplay of play and form. Merleau-Ponty wrote, > > "It is certainly right to condemn formalism, but it is usually forgotten > that its error is not that it esteems form too much, but that it esteems it > so little that it DETACHES it from MEANING" > > I want to reply to Lois question with my reflections on the various forms > of play discussed yesterday. There was the experiential play where we > improvised and held each others hands [left hand connecting, then right > hand connecting, then releasing left hand to connect to a third person, > then releasing right hand to connect to a forth person *in* a flow-form > structure of improvisation. > > Another form of pretend play was described that may extend over 3 days in > the kindergarten class and persons occupy and maintain their pretend roles > over this time scale. This is clearly a *type* of play but there is no > laughter and the children stay *in* form. > > We also explored the *form* of play called science where *form* facilitates > the formation of *traditions* that extend over expanses of sociohistorical > time. Lois impression of this *form* of lay seems to generate so much fun. > Vygotsky suggests this form of play leads to higher mental functions. > > My question, to extend THIS *form* of play, [play as conversation] is to > ask the rhetorical question, > Do each of us have preferred *forms* of play, from improvisations [ > immediate temporal flow-form ], through imaginal dramatic play, and > extending to more rule BOUND temporal formations [traditions]. Are each of > us prejudiced to privilege as deeply meaningful different forms of PLAY? > > Also do persons privilege different yearnings [passions] for more or less > porous and permeable flow forms between various *types* of formations > [noun] *formings* verb. > > PLAY seems to be a concept with depths of *overflowing* meaning that can be > *unveiled*. THIS hermeneutical *way* of understanding IS a form of play. > > Larry > > > Larry > > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Duvall, Emily <emily@uidaho.edu> wrote: > > > A very exciting session this afternoon! > > From an organizational perspective, we were able to have our last minute > > discussant volunteer Skype in and give riveting commentary on three very > > different papers. Thank you so much, Mike Cole, for taking on the role of > > discussant in the CHR SIG session, Perceiving Affordances in Activity > > Systems. And thank you to my very talented graduate student, Monica > Hansen, > > for facilitating the technology and Jennifer Vadeboncoeur for bringing > her > > speakers! Tony Perone, the chair of the session, and I - as well as > others > > - really see this as a beginning point for the use of technology in order > > to bring AERA and our larger community together in the future. > > Meanwhile, Monica will be working on videotaping the business meeting and > > we'll see what we can put together for you all. > > Back to the session, from a spectator perspective, it was quite exciting > > to listen to three fairly diverse papers: > > - activity settings as contexts for motivation: revealing goal structures > > as dilemmas within and between activities by Seaman, Rheingold, & > Middleton > > - replacing the US -Dakota war hanging monument: a study in red pedagogy > > by Lybeck > > - triadic zones of proximal development in the perpetuation of advantage: > > schooling the social classes by PAnofsky & Vadeboncoeur > > > > And then have Mike really dive into the works from a variety of > > perspectives. Generously examining each through the theoretical frames, > > the content of the studies (I, too, wondered what happened to Michael in > > the first paper!), and offering clear suggestions for future work was a > > real joy and a privilege to listen to. > > > > One thing I would have liked to talk about, once I found my voice about > 30 > > minutes later, was mediation. I would have liked to examine the studies > > through form and function of mediation. > > > > Great session all - thank you! > > And don't forget to register as a reviewer and begin to prepare you sub > > issuing for 2013 in San Fran. > > > > Emily Duvall, PhD > > CHR SIG Co - Program Chair > > University of Idaho > > Sent from my iPad > > __________________________________________ > > _____ > > 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 > -- Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D. Sanford I. Berman Post-Doctoral Scholar Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition Department of Communication University of California, San Diego http://ucsd.academia.edu/GregoryThompson __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
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