I know people are still travelling; the critical mass may not yet be arrived
to get this discussion going. But I do want to emphasize how much your ideas
can matter to the direction of the SIG and to support the call for
discussion.
Off the top, to stir up some idea, there are many pressing educational
issues concerning school reform, school restructuring, and the rhetoric
associated with mandates, which beg for CHAT analysis. I still think there
are lots of possibilities suggested by the CH--AT tensions of CHAT
(reformulating issues arising from subject-oriented and object-oriented
research in ways that allow for designs that address both).
It's hard to know how many xmca-ers are back from conferencing and
vacationing, given the slow traffic, but conversations once started can be
picked up and continued as others appear, so anyone "out there" who has
half-baked ideas, please, put them on the table for the rest of the chefs.
judy
See bill's message below!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Barowy [mailto:wbarowy@attbi.com]
Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 12:08 PM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu; Ch-Sig
Subject: ISCRAT, CHSIG Theme
Hi Folks,
1) For those of you who were at ISCRAT, welcome back! Can anyone offer any
report of the happenings there?
2) There is a pending discussion of the CHSIG Theme due. If there is a
dearth of sentiment regarding the matter, the CHSIG executive committee may
be compelled to decide the matter internally. So far the following has been
opined, though not publically.
A) The CHSIG Theme mediates the antinomy of AERA bureaucratic function and
CHSIG interest. In the absence of proposed symposia, the theme enables the
executive committee to put one together, ad hoc, with the coherence made
possible by the theme orientation.
B) Start thinking big about a session that would serve to address "in
house"
interesting topics that connect with pressing ed. res. issues, thus drawing
us a bigger crowd for membership maintenance/expansion. This would create
more spaces in the long run for our annual conf...
3) Would someone please redirect this message to the CHSIG mailing list? I
am having technical difficulties sending messages there.
Thx in advance.
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