----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cole" <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: 11 October 2001 16:33
Subject: saying more
>
> Hi Bruce-- I am playing hookey from other obligations to get a little
quiet
> time and to catch up on mail. So I am behind the curve of the xmca
discussions
> and am responding to your note after having responded to prior, relevant,
> notes.
>
> An interesting quote from Vygotsky about the need for interdisciplinarity
which
> I was unknowingly repeating, in part, in my response to Eric re general
> PSYCHOLOGY. How does CHAT measure up? As a just-beginning-to-be developed
> effort at something that puts the humpty dumpty of 20th Century positivist
> science back together again-- or more properly, seeks a way to keep the
egg
> from climbing the wall in the first place. I do not believe I have made a
whole
> lot of progress since writing *Cultural Psychology* where I sketch out in
the
> middle chapters some of the work to be done. I, personally, am working at
> several of those tasks, some of which push "upward" toward relations
between
> activities and their institutional settings over time, some of which work
> on the linkages between activities and individuals-in-activity-over time,
> and some of which seek to understand linkages to our evolutionary past.
>
> I don't believe I have the talent to get all that done in whatever time is
> allotted to me, which is why I advocate distributed collaborations among
people
> who focus on various subsets of the overall problematic..... itself, as we
> all have witnessed, a form of action with its own costs and problems.
> mike
>
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