Eric,
Can you expand a bit on what you mean by clearly described methodology so
that I might direct you to an appropriate piece of writing? In my varied
work, for example, there is an overall methodology but each setting will
have different methods (e.g., classroom, school, after school
program,business or organization).
Lois
> From: ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org
> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:27:07 -0600
> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Artist as creator reminds me of combined motor method
>
>
> Mike:
>
> Once again I have credited you with a farther reaching arm then your frame
> can support ( -: The implementation of performance preceeding development
> is practiced at my small program from having students 'perform' work place
> behaviors to having students provide instruction to a group of their peers
> to having students practice interviews to having a student's conversation
> videotaped. Besides the overview presentation article authored by Holzman
> and Karliner I am lacking in the suggested reading material. I briefly
> read some info on the eastsideinstitute website but was unable to gather
> any clearly described methodology.
>
> eric
>
>
>
> Mike Cole
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> 12/13/2005 11:35
> AM
> Please respond
> to mcole; Please
> respond to
> "eXtended Mind,
> Culture,
> Activity"
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>
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>
>
>
> Interest in the potentials of afterschool hours for creating
> development-enhancing enviroments does not come from our work afterschool,
> Eric. Rather, we are part of a "Zeitgeist" of interest in such programs
> with
> important people like Shirley Brice Heath, Jackie Eccles, Lois and her
> group, and many others. Our approach is distinctively different than
> others,
> I believe, in the way it intertwines normal undergraduate and graduate
> education with involvement in the interventions.
>
> An important issue in this community is programming. Different implementers
> have different
> strategies. One of those strategies is to have young people engage in
> locally culturallly valued activities (theatre in all its aspects is one
> popular genre). There is always a value/political theory related to the
> theory of development embodied in such activities, so their variations are
> interesting for many reasons.
>
> The emphasis on public performance in such activities forfronts particular
> manifestations of agency as well as a social context where, in Courtney
> Cazden's apt phrase, "performance preceeds competence." For Courtney, this
> idea was the key to how to understand zopeds;
> by engaging in social activities where children/youth jointly enact a
> production, the cognitive demands on individuals can be flexibly rearranged
> so that the youngster experiences, jointly,
> the quality of interaction that, subsequently, s/he may be able to use as a
> psychological tool for appropriating the experience, "mentally."
>
> That is why I thnk we should focus on the issue of performance and discuss
> the articles that
> Lois put up for discussion, perhaps with Vygotsky's article as an anchor
> point. It sounds like you have developed your own way of implementing this
> methodology?
>
> mike
>
> On 12/13/05, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> But at present we have Lois et al 'sperformance as an intervention
>> strategy
>> to consider.
>> mike
>>
>> Mike:
>>
>> Thank you for the push to read the Holzman and Karliner presentation
>> paper.
>> It is indeed proof that your work in the afterschool programs has started
>> to grow in other areas. As I wrote earlier I will try to script a
>> dialogue
>> that presents what I was referring to earlier in how performance as
>> intervention has benefited the students that I work with.
>>
>> eric
>>
>>
>>
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