Francoise Herrmann <fherrmann@igc.apc.org>
Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann@igc.apc.org)
Thu, 14 Sep 1995 10:37:41 -0700
ISAn educational researcher working as a freelance interpreter and
translator (French and Spanish mostly in the medical sciences).
My research began at SUSE (the Stanford School of Education) where
I was interested in the use of computers in education. I focused
on two functions of computer use referred to as the instrumental
and the agentive (the machine tool and the anthropomorphic machine
viz. Tutor, DrillMaster, Expert and TaskMaster). Examining these
functions in the context of foreign language learning was the
topic of my dissertation; in contexts of first language learning,
both at the primary level and in an after school program, and, to a
certain extent on the x-lists, was the topic of books #2 and #3.
The wizards that intially inspired my work are Robert Politzer,
Terry Winograd and Activity Theorists, who I discovered through
Judith Langer and Arthur Applebee, in particular, Yrjo Engestrom,
Jim Wertsch, Michael Cole, Peg Griffin and Leont'ev. On the former
x-lists, however, I discovered many additional wizards, among
who, Ethel Tobach, Susan Leigh Star, Arne Raiethel, Eugene
Matusov, Alfred Lang, Gordon Wells, Bill Penuel, Martin Packer,
Robert Serpell, Luis Moll, Edouard Lagache, Olga Vasquez, Jay Lemke
and Mary K. Bryson. It is a real joy to participate on the lists,
and now, on xmca.
Francoise Francoise Herrmann fherrmann@igc.org