Thanks Paul.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul H.Dillon" <illonph@pacbell.net>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: Re: srcd interest?
> srcd = Society for Research in Child Development
>
> Paul H. Dillon
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Geoff Hayward <geoff.hayward@educational-studies.oxford.ac.uk>
> To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 1:58 AM
> Subject: Re: srcd interest?
>
>
> > Can I ask a very naive question - what does SRCD stand for and how does
> one
> > sign up? It sounds really interesting.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Mike Cole" <mcole@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 11:25 PM
> > Subject: srcd interest?
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I am in the process of submitting a paper to SRCD and was considering
> > > submitting a second paper. The deadline is July 30 for electronic
> > submissions.
> > >
> > > The date of the meeting is April 24-27 in Tampa, Florida.
> > >
> > > I learned upon reading the convention guidelines carefully that the
only
> > > way to submit a stand along paper is as a poster.... which I may do.
But
> > > I thought that perhaps there is a critical mass of people on xmca who
> > > might like to organize a symposium.
> > >
> > > So, pasted below is a "mock symposium proposal." If no one is
> interested,
> > > I will turn it into a poster paper. But hopefully there will be 4-5
> > > people who would like to join me in a joint exploration of this issue.
> > > After our planned fall discussion, there ought to be more than enough
> > > grist for this mill. The question is, are there enough nuts who want
to
> > > go to Tampa in April (remember, AERA is the same month) to have take a
> > > crake at this topic? :-)
> > > mike
> > > -----
> > > "Competing" theoretical approaches to the relation between
> > > culture and cognitive development: Kissing cousins or Feuding
Siblings?
> > >
> > > Over the past decade there has been an explosion of interest
> > > in developmental research growing out of interest in the writings
> > > of LS Vygotsky and his students, on the one hand, and various
> > > American anthropological traditions and the work of American
> > > pragmatic philosophers on the other, for all of whom the role of
culture
> > in development is a central problematic. It is routine to see the
> > > concepts of "context," "joint mediated activity," "communities of
> > practice," "guided participation," "situated cognition" and a variety of
> > other
> > > terms grouped as if they shared a common interest in, and orientation
> > > to, human development. Simultaneously, a close reading of the
> > > authors assumed to share roughly the "same" theoretical position
> > > indicates rather marked differences among them.
> > >
> > > One major fraction line has been formulated as a difference between
> those
> > who focus on "mediated action in context" versus those who focus on
> > "activity" as a basic unit of analysis. Another common fraction line is
> > between those who emphasize mediational tools and those who focus on
forms
> > of participation. Yet another set of issues centers on questions of the
> > ability of one or another such position to deal with issues of power,
> > gender, and difference more generally.
> > > Finally, the different perspective often appear to differ with respect
> to
> > the extent to which the concepts of development and culture are, or are
> not,
> > central to their concerns.
> > >
> > > In this symposium will contrast the main theoretical positions within
> this
> > group of related theories and the empirical phenomena they study. We
will
> > seek to identify key points of tension which need to be clarified in
order
> > to conduct empirical work that might help distinguish terminological
> > misunderstandings from theoretical disagreements. Such clarification, we
> > believe, is necessary if future empirical work on the role of culture in
> > development is to be usefully pursued.
> > >
> > >
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