Thats a good question Andy, it seems that a sequence of events lead me
to xmca, but i think who put the seed to me of such a comprehensive
approach to human development and human problems was my professor of
developmental psychology Magda Kalmar when i was doing my BA
Psychology and MA Clinical Psychology at Eotvos Lorand University of
Budapest. She has worked directly with Jerome Bruner i have discovered
accidentally a week ago ''In Oxford Bruner collected a large group of
graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who participated in the
effort to understand how young children manage to crack the linguistic
code, among them Alison Gopnik, Magda Kalmar hu:Kalmár Magda
(pszichológus), Alan Leslie, Andrew Meltzoff, Anat Ninio, Roy Pea,
Susan Sugarman [2], Michael Scaife, Marian Sigman [3], Kathy Sylva and
many others. '' (Wikipedia) and Uri Bronfenbrenner i think. But i
didnt know about xmc a specifically till 2 years ago when i started
writing my PhD research proposal here at Charles Darwin University
where i was seeking material to write a proposal explaining
help-seeking behaviours for mental illness under a sociocultural
framework, and somehow through google i have discovered the infinite
food for thought world of xmca:)
Nektarios
-----Original Message-----U BronfenbrennerFrom:
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The infinite regression happens by itself, Nektarios, along with the
pleasure you will get from reading this stuff. Don't worry about
"absolute answers" because you won't find them. What brought you to xmca
to begin with?
Andy
Nektarios Alexi wrote:
>
> But what about creating questions as reading? What about expanding by
> learning? And what about reading for the sake of questioning rather
> than seeking for absolute answers? What about reading for sake of the
> pleasure of reading by it self? But not a pleasure that it is
> exhausted after its fullfillment but for a pleasure that is getting
> deeper and deeper as more someone read?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
> Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 2:02 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
>
> To read productively, Nektarios, I think it is always necessary to read
> purposively, that is, especially, to seek for the answers to specific
> questions (or betters ways of framing the question!). Sometimes what you
> are reading is not at the appropriate degree of generality to give
> answers recognisable to your questions, and that is a problem in itself.
> But always proceed like Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues.
>
> Andy
>
> Nektarios Alexi wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Tnx for posting your work. I am looking toward to read it carefully
> > very soon and hope to come up with some relevant questions.
> >
> > Sometime it is hard to find appropriate questions, because i am not
> > always sure if i am understanding correctly what i am reading, from
> > scholars of the calibre that are writing in this forum. But i think
> > that all these fascinating readings that people posting here it is a
> > kind of Zone of Proximal development for me since it keeps my
> > intellectual curiosity always alert.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nektarios
> >
>
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