campk@cc.usu.edu (Kay Camperell)
Kay Camperell (campk@cc.usu.edu)
Wed, 20 Sep 1995 18:45:31 -0700
My name is Kay Camperell and I am an Associate Professor in the Department
of Secondary Education at Utah State University. I teach a
graduate/undergraduate course in content area reading/writing and graduate
courses in the Psychology of Reading and Current Issues in Secondary
Education. I spent part of a sabbatical at Appalachian State University
where Bill Blanton and Gary Moorman help me reconnect with Vygotskian
theory and help me connect with more recent work by Wertsch (e.g., Voices
of the Mind), Lave & Wenger, Michael Cole's Fifth Dimension Project, etc.
I am particularly interested topics such as legitimate peripheral
participation (and it's implications for improving teacher education),
appropriation, Smagorinsky's work on the investigating learning in the ZPD,
etc. Perhaps, the text that has had the most influence on me, one I visit
and revisit, is Salomon's volume of articles on Distributed Cognition. I
now teach in a so-called model Literacy and Technology Demonstration
classroom. There are 25 PowerMac's in the class linked to the Internet,
and I am struggling to find ways to develop my courses so that I create
authentic learning communities (e.g., Ann Brown) for preparing preservice
and inservice secondary teachers.