It's really quite interesting. On the one hand, xmca as a ball game; on the
other, xmca as bearing on lived experience; on the one hand, rational
discourse as a text external to social relations, on the other, a perceived
need to stretch the theory to account for lived experience. On the one, the
perception of offense and an act of defense; on the other, the perception of
offense and an act of defense. What could be more interesting, as Kathie
asked? Or important?
more later,
Judith
Compare xmca to
>a public event (a baseball game, a concert, etc.). Everyone came to see the
>game or hear the music. If you hear someone sitting a couple of seats over
>say that your favorite ball player or instrumentalist is second rate, you
>don't get up and start a fight with them, do you? Isn't that part of the
>price of diversity? Remember that we came to watch the game, hear the
>music, discuss topics related to, as Eva wrote, "an interest in
>cultural-historical, sociocultural, and activity-theoretical approaches to
>learning, development and communication."
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>Furthermore, assuming observation of basic netiquette, it is impossible for
>anyone to know how any but a very small handful of people here will respond.
>But it's really very intimidating to think that there are people out there
>who are reading everything with an eye to its correctness from the
>perspective of their own particular trajectory and ready to jump on it as
>failing some ambiguous litmus test. That in itself is a mighty force toward
>silencing and non-participation.
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>Perhaps what you're really saying is that you want more people to post who
>reflect your orientation. I don't think it's anyone's responsibility to
>cater to or cultvate these specific, particular voices except those for whom
>they are important. Why not ask yourself what you can do positively to
>ensure this greater participation instead of casting it as someone else's
>problem? I know of people who could make important contibutions to the
>specific trajectories that most interest me (Carl Ratner, Andy Blund, and
>now Phil Graham) but who don't participate because they find the threads
>dominated by voices that offend their idea of what reasoned discussion is.
>Do you think of them when you send messages?
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Judith Diamondstone (732) 932-7496 Ext. 352
Graduate School of Education
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
10 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1183
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