Hi everyone:
thanks so much for the responses. I'm still digesting all the information
and struggling to put some of the pieces together.
I wish the answer could be a straightforward one, but it seem to be a very
complex issue which involves more than listing differences/similarities, but
goes on to thinking about method/methodolgies distinctions, as well as the
whole spectrum of possible terminologies/trends for what is being named CHAT
and action research. Hands up for Mike's and David's suggestions.
Elaine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Cole" <lchcmike@gmail.com>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: [xmca] CHAT and action-research
> Sounds like a good suggestion, or suggestionS, David. I do not believe
> that
> looking at methods will suffice either, but that we would benefit
> collectively
> by addressing the method/methodology distinction in the context of
> concrete
> examples.
> mike
>
> On 1/14/07, David ES <eddyspda@gse.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I'd welcome the chance to read and discuss Cathrene's chapter, as well.
>>
>> Another piece to consider is Anne Edward's article, "Looking at action
>> research through the lenses of sociocultural psychology and activity
>> theory" in Educational Action Research (2000, v8n1).
>>
>> She's after the points of conceptual connection and finds one in a
>> shared concern around the interplay of individual agency and
>> organizational surround (at least in the version of collaborative action
>> research she leans into, John Elliott's, inspired by Giddens). She notes
>> that CHAT offers AR systematic means of theorizing and analyzing
>> interconnections among agency, action, system.
>>
>> It seems a critical consideration has to be about the levels at which
>> cross-pollination occurs--who gets to enact the role of researcher
>> (owning conceptual & analytic frameworks) and who gets researched.
>>
>> For example, Cobb & McClain serve as one example, with thoughtful,
>> engaged researchers on the outside using CHAT as a means of illuminating
>> how insiders carry out what might be considered broadly a collaborative
>> action research effort. Another example is that of the Developing
>> Inquiring Communities of Educators Project, which Gordon Wells describes
>> in the first chapter of Action, Talk, and Text as a close-knit group of
>> teacher-researchers co-constructing a common framework for inquiry by
>> delving into CHAT together.
>>
>> So looking at methods alone might not get at such issues of epistemology
>> and power, but methodologies would. It would be great to lay out a
>> spectrum of worked examples, including Cathrene's, these, others.
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>> Mike Cole wrote:
>> > We can post the chapter you refer to on xmca papers for discussion if
>> you
>> > wish. Catherine.
>> > Once again terminology arises to challenge us:
>> > sociocultural/action/chat
>> > research methods to be added to
>> > grounded research............ as Kevin noted yesterday.
>> >
>> > Perhaps an internet course on comparison of methods, or perhaps
>> > methodologies?
>> > mike
>> >
>> > On 1/14/07, Merja Helle <Merja.Helle@helsinki.fi> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> cathrene
>> >>
>> >> i certainly would be interested in your dissertation
>> >>
>> >> merja helle
>> >>
>> >> e-mail: merja.helle@helsinki.fi
>> >>
>> >> Quoting Cathrene Connery <ConneryC@cwu.EDU>:
>> >>
>> >> > Hi everyone:
>> >> > My dissertation on the ontogenesis of emergent biliterates (2006)
>> >> > integrated sociocultural and action research methods. During the
>> >> course
>> >> > of the writing,it became necessary to include an additional chapter
>> on
>> >> > the philosophical assumptions of the study for one of the committee
>> >> > members to legitimize my approach. I'd be happy to forward the
>> chapter
>> >> > as an attachment to anyone who is interested. It certainly would
>> >> make a
>> >> > fun article for anyone who'd like to collaborate!
>> >> > Cathrene
>>
>> --
>> David Eddy Spicer, Ed.D.
>> Harvard Graduate School of Education
>> <eddyspda@gse.harvard.edu>
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