Katherine Brown <kbrown@weber.ucsd.edu>
Katherine Brown (kbrown@weber.ucsd.edu)
Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:06:24 -0700
Hello. I am a doctoral student at UC San Diego, in the Communication
Department, and have been orbiting the Laboratory of Comparative Human
Cognition in some capacity or other since 1987, as I did my undergraduate
work at UCSD and have been interested in work, learning, communication,
mind, culture and change and definitions and notions of value/location
of skill and expertise since at least that time.
I split my time right now between working on my doctoral thesis: "The
acquisition and transformation of chemical photographic and digital/electronic
photo-imaging expertise" (an ethnographic study of the ongoing changes in
the photographic education component of a visual arts department in a
university, using activity theoretical and ethnomethodological concepts
and methodologies to analyse video and audiotape data.) and I work on the
(in the, for the...) DIstributed Literacy Consortium, focussing on collecting
and organizing for later analysis data having to do with integrating
implementing and sustaining new university-community partnerships for
children, parents, undergraduates and researchers in after school settings
I follow discussions of skill, technology, seeing, vision, mind, artifacts,
culture, development, change, apprenticeship, LPP, membership, and other
things that point to/derive from these, esp. where there is some hook to
activity theory.
Looking forward to meeting, remeeting, anyone out there...
Katherine Brown
p.s. I'm on chapter 6 of my thesis!!