very sorry to hear about the health problems, Lois. An age-related epidemic
I fear. Been there, not done with that.
I hope others will join in here. And when you are up to it, that you join
in. The topic
is super relevant to XMCA and, I also believe, to chsig at AERA.
mike
On 6/3/06, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
>
> Thanks for asking, Mike.
>
> I have to read Seth's article and your examples, including Franklin's
> play.
> Have been dealing with hip replacement surgery (partner's) and broken
> implants (mine) and work-related events til now. I think I can carve out
> time to be thoughtful in my response in a day or so.
>
> Right now, I'll just say that how I understand learning leading
> development
> is actually as a way to get past either/or. In Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary
> Scientist (1993) Newman and I ask what Vygotsky could have meant by
> learning
> leading development. It seems doubtful that he meant leads to express a
> temporal or linear 'in advance of' given the totality of his work in which
> dialectical unity is central. So we decide/interpret/conclude that he
> means
> to give expression to the dialectical unity of
> learning-leading-development
> in which one is not the cause but the historical bicondition for the
> other,
> not unlike his search for method being simultaneously tool-and-result, and
> not unlike his understanding of thought being completed in the word. So
> the
> unity relationship of learning and development can be seen as also one of
> completion in this sense‹learning completes development while development
> completes learning, though they do not complete each other in the same
> way.
>
> Again, I'll return to this with more thought soon.
>
> Lois
>
> > From: "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> > Reply-To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
> > <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 16:31:33 -0700
> > To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] 2007 AERA Proposal Submission System is open :)
> >
> > How would you apply the idea of looking at learning and development as a
> > dialectical
> > whole to the case of Franklin's play, Lois? And to Vygotsky's ideas of
> the
> > relation between
> > learning and development? Sounds like a very promising way to get past
> > either/or but I am
> > not sure if it gets past learning leads development. Perhaps if that
> latter
> > phrase were re-
> > formulated as "learning can, under properly organized conditions, lead
> > development" a
> > dialect could be formulated?
> >
> > As a not-fully-recovered S-R psychologist where all I have learned,
> which
> > Dewey tried to teach
> > me half a century before I was born, is that R leads S, so how can S
> lead R.
> > Kinda like "in the
> > beginning is the deed."
> >
> > Still, learning and development can be a puzzler.
> > What's a prime example for your way of approaching the issue?
> > mike
> >
> > On 6/3/06, Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I am also. May I suggest that something we offer to the AERA community
> is
> >> looking at learning and development as a dialectical whole? I'm happy
> to
> >> work with some others on developing something to propose.
> >> Lois
> >>
> >>> From: Ana Marjanovic-Shane <ana@zmajcenter.org>
> >>> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >>> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:25:47 -0400
> >>> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity"
> >>> <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >>> Subject: Re: [xmca] 2007 AERA Proposal Submission System is open :)
> >>>
> >>> That is a must! I am up to that seminar, who else is?
> >>> Ana
> >>>
> >>> Mike Cole wrote:
> >>>> It seems that the topic of the relation of learning to development
> chat
> >>>> theories is a likely seminar
> >>>> topic.
> >>>>
> >>>> Whose ;up for that?
> >>>> mike
> >>>>
> >>>> On 6/2/06, Jennifer Vadeboncoeur <vadebonc@interchange.ubc.ca> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dear Cultural-Historical SIG Folks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We've just been told that the 2007 AERA Annual Convention All
> >>>>> Academic Submission System is open for proposal submission as of
> June
> >>>>> 2, 2006. We welcome your proposals!
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The theme of the 2007 AERA Annual Convention is "The World of
> >>>>> Educational Quality." Following Eva Baker and Daniel Koretz,
> >>>>> President and Program Committee Chair of AERA, the "theme
> highlights
> >>>>> the importance of attending to educational systems and education
> >>>>> research outside the United States. There are efforts around the
> >>>>> globe, in both developed and developing nations, to reform
> >>>>> educational systems, improve equity of access and opportunity, and
> >>>>> strengthen student learning." The themes of "world" and "quality"
> >>>>> can also be interpreted more broadly, to include work that draws
> upon
> >>>>> disciplines outside of education research, and work that addresses
> >>>>> the quality of educational practice and research (see
> >>>>> https://www.aera.net/annualmeeting/?id=1399).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Our SIG has a lot to contribute to this convention theme, because
> the
> >>>>> relation between culture and education is central to our work. This
> >>>>> is an opportunity to show the broader AERA community the importance
> >>>>> and relevance of cultural-historical research to pressing
> >>>>> contemporary issues-such as globalization, international relations,
> >>>>> and educational reform in social and cultural context. Research
> >>>>> conducted internationally, or in diverse cultural communities, would
> >>>>> be particularly well-suited to the conference theme.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Last year, each SIG was assigned a number of sessions based on total
> >>>>> membership. This year, the numbers and type of sessions each SIG
> >>>>> gets is related, largely but not entirely, to the number of
> >>>>> submissions that SIG receives. This means that WE NEED FOR YOU TO
> >>>>> SUBMIT PROPOSALS TO OUR SIG! It also means that the odds of
> >>>>> acceptance will remain roughly constant regardless of the number of
> >>>>> submissions that we receive, unlike in previous years when each
> >>>>> additional proposal had to compete for a fixed number of slots.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Please read the AERA call for proposals at
> >>>>> https://www.aera.net/AALogin.asp before preparing your proposal.
> >>>>> This call describes the possible formats for sessions and for
> >>>>> presentations.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We'd also like to take this time to remind folks just how much we
> >>>>> value and thrive on the basis of your other contributions. In
> >>>>> particular, we need reviewers to volunteer VERY SOON. Please log in
> >>>>> to the 2007 AERA Annual Convention Online System
> >>>>> (https://www.aera.net/AALogin.asp). This is also the place to
> >>>>> volunteer to be a discussant or chair.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The Proposal Submission System will close on August 2, 2006.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> We look forward to seeing each of you at the 2007 AERA Annual
> >>>>> Meeting, April 9-13 in Chicago, Illinois.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All the best - Jennifer and Keith
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> ______________________________
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dr. Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
> >>>>> The University of British Columbia
> >>>>> Faculty of Education
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