Bakhtin lives
Molly Freeman (mollyfreeman who-is-at telis.org)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 20:03:30 -0700
This is my first posting.. I am currently working with K12 teachers and
high school students in an Institute for integrating the Internet with
Curriculum. We prepare 1,000 teachers each summer in the San Francisco
Bay Area. My doctoral work at The Union Institute is in complexity
theory and distance learning. I draw heavily upon the works of
Durkheim, Mannheim, Dewey, G.H. Mead, Vygotsky, Bakhtin, Buber, Freire,
Feuerstein and complexity theorists.
With regard to Martin Nystrand's remark about Bakhtin.....i Indeed, I
happen to know for a fact that a recently replaced head of state in one
of the former Soviet Republics is quite literate in Bakhtin. I had the
very same response, "Bakhtin Lives." to many of his efforts to navigate
international relations between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and their
respective neighbors. I have only read Creation of a Prosaics. My
doctoral committee has heard more about polyphony than they may ever
wish to hear.
Molly Freeman