Honorine Nocon
Honorine Nocon (hnocon@weber.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:21:33 -0700 (PDT)
Hello, xmca
I am a third year graduate student in the Dept. of Communication at
UCSD. I also work with Mike Cole and Olga Vasquez at LCHC. My research
focuses on community education and voluntarism. I am particularly
interested in the building and sustaining of communities of diverse
learners. In order to study these I am informed by Cole, Engestrom,
Lave, and Rogoff as well as Raymond Williams and Pierre Bourdieu.
Currently, I am working on a paper on La Clase Magica's success in
attracting and retaining Latino kids. I am using Wartofsky's notion
of tertiary artifacts to explore the accommodation of differing
worldviews in that activity system. I am also working on a paper on
the Pop Warner Little Scholars Football Association attempting to trace
historical changes in the nature of volunteering and philanthropy in
response to social and economic change. Hopefully, both of these papers
will be chapters in my thesis.
Prior to coming to UCSD, I taught Spanish at San Diego State and Mesa College
and was a Research Associate at the National Language Resource Center at
SDSU. My background is in linguistics, language pedagogy, and cultural
anthropology. Now I explore how language is used as a communicative tool.
Honorine