Thank you for the nice note about ISCRAT and the two presentations on Arne and
Davydov.
It was impossible for me to come to ISCRAT this time. I was sorry about the fact
for weeks in advance and I am still sorry. I am looking forward to people's
impressions and discussions of the raised issues. Will it be possible to read
some of the presented papers too? Will the papers be publicized throught the
ISCRAT site or XMCA site or in other ways?
Greetings to all
Ana
Mike Cole wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
> It seems almost impossible to believe that 10 days have passed since
> I raced home from the ISCRAT conference in Aarhus. The interim has
> been jammed full of grading papers, end of year grad exams, and various
> year-end university chores, delaying this message.
> The conference was so interesting it was the cause of constant
> frustration! I could not attend to sessions I was responsible for
> participating in without missing several simultaneous sessions I really
> wanted to attend. And the same applied for every session I got to attend
> and listen to-- I had to miss several equally inviting sessions.
> I have a modest proposal-request-- might people single out one
> or two sessions they attended, or a paper that made a special impression
> on them, and post a summary/commentary on xmca? I will try to do this
> myself in the next couple of days.
> As a preliminary comment, the two memorial sessions I participated
> in each generated not only emotional, but intellectually challenging
> moments. I remember particularly Eva's glimpses into the xlchc/xmca
> persona of Arne Raeithel and the cornocopia of important ideas he
> worked through with us in the past and Yrjo's presentation not only
> of Arne's ideas about levels of centration/ coordination-collaboration-
> communication, as well as Yrjo's summary of Davydov's ideas concerning
> genetically primary examples and development at the memorial for
> Davydov.
> I was also impressed, not always optimistically, with the tremendous
> difficulties of communication across language/culture variations that were
> present at the conference and at the same time, amazed with peoples'
> patience and tenacity in trying to overcome those constraints to achieve
> communication (in Arne's sense).
> Warmest greetings on the summer solstice to our Nordic/Scandanavian
> colleagues, may you get some sleep despite all that sunlight. And heartfelt
> thanks the Marianne Hedeberg, Seth Chaiklin, and all the many people in
> Aarhus for providing such an incredible model of hospitality and
> colleagial warmth.
> mike
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