Victoria Yew wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> Bill B. wrote, "Oooh, ouch, Phillip. I thought you were mocking a genre of
> academic communications that a whole lot of us drop into for various
> reasons. Wow, this medium sure is full of pitfalls."
>
> And I kinda of share similar sentiments. No, Phillip, you're not lost in
> La-la land. Perhaps, we're trapped with work (I know I am), or just still
> pondering ... mulling ...
> And thanks folks for your response to my request for help with references.
> I'm still on that "witch hunt" (which I think is turning out fruitful), and
> when I stumble on more stuff, I'll also let you know. : )
>
> Cheers
> Victoria
>
> PS: Is anyone heading to the III Conference for Sociocultural Research in
> Sao Paulo, 2000.
>
> At 10:16 AM 21/09/99 -0600, you wrote:
> > howdy, folks - i sent this out, but it seems to have gotten lost in
> >lala-land.
> >
> > so, a second try.
> >
> >
> >Eva wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>So self-disclosure in the form of personal narrative usually contributes
> >>both to community building and to multilogue. This is something I'll be
> >>trying to weave into the next phase of my writing. It is also a part of
> >>XMCA culture that deserves being made explicit now and then... so thanks
> >>Victoria and Judy for the reminder.
> >
> > and i want to add a bit to this - especially beginning with thanks to
> >Paul and Bill B. and Bill P. for their responses to my last postings from
> >last weekend. as it turns out, this year i'm teaching third grade, which
> >means lots of intensive specific instruction so that the students can pass
> >the state reading assessment - which is no small task for the students.
> >and so i find that during the week i have very little time to compose my
> >thoughts and write something coherent.
> >
> > however, thinking about xmca as community as Eva had earlier written
> >about this week - i considered again my sense of indignation - i think
> >it showed - about the postings regarding Mary Daly - because my
> >assumption had been that xmca was a friendly place for feminism and
> >gay/lesbian and ethnic/racial issues and questions about diversity - so
> >that i expected that even if one would disagree with Daly's position, one
> >would also demonstrate feelings of support and sympathy.
> >
> > that didn't happened, and a felt a sudden loss of community - as well
> >as a sense of betrayal - there we are, Vera, with that pesky affective
> >domaine again.
> >
> > so i behaved badly - mockingly towards Paul (and I apologize) - and was
> >also rebuked. but there we are.
> >
> > so, as Mike mentioned earlier about the posting about the woodstalk (pun
> >intended) debacle, there are multiple reasons for anger on occasion.
> >
> > still - i'm also wanting to respond to Bill Baroway's question - what
> >are community members doing with chat.
> >
> > for the last year and one half i've been working on my own practice as a
> >teacher, focusing on the question, what do my third grade students needs
> >in terms of cultural capital in order to pass the colorado reading
> >assessment? especially i'm focusing on tool use as Wertsch writes about
> >in Mind in Action - and the question of prolepsis as described by Mike in
> >Cultural Psychology. for my students too, reflecting on Jaan Valsiner's
> >notion of the student participating in her own development
> >(learning/change) with the anticipation of a different future condition.
> >this work is still on-going - and in fascinating because my students are
> >in part learning english, as well as predominantly of low economic ses -
> >and i'm becoming very interested in how working class folk understand risk
> >taking and change.
> >
> > also, i'm doing an autoethnography to understand my own adult development
> >trajectory.
> >
> > i think of mary bryson's comment that about development "there's no there
> >there" - which is what i initially began to think - and now i think
> >i'm mistaken - mostly because of reading such howlers as Erick Erickson
> >stating that the only mature sexual behavior is to be found in marriage.
> >i'm sure the pope will be encouraged to read this!
> >
> > and i'm fascinated by Victoria's postings - and mulling them over and
> >i'm so glad others have the time to respond.
> >
> >phillip
> >
> >
> >
> Victoria Yew
> Doctoral Candidate
> School of Educational Psychology, Literacies & Learning
> Faculty of Education (A35)
> University of Sydney
> NSW 2006
> AUSTRALIA
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