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> From: Margaret Riel <mriel@pepperdine.edu>
> Subject: [xmca] Jan Hawkins Award
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> Hi all,
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> We are looking for nominations for the Jan Hawkins early career
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> *Call for Nominations: 2011 Jan Hawkins Award for Early *
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> *Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and *
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> *Scholarship in Learning Technologies, AERA Div. C***
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> An ideal candidate is someone who is able to blend a social
> justice activist agenda with strong scholarship making use
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> I have attached the information about the award and the nomination process.
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> From: Lois Holzman <lholzman@eastsideinstitute.org>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Imitation and the Zoped: Time to summarize?
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> I wonder if I missed something about the ZBR...
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> Also I wonder where you, Mike, see a lack of clarity, or what clarity would
> look like. I see variations and differences of opinion.
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> Regarding kinds of imitation I think there is no "essence" or any one thing
> that one could say ties them all together or that they have in common.
> Here's a place where Wittgenstein's "family resemblances" is so helpful (to
> me). For those who are not familiar, I quote portions of some passages from
> Philosophical Investigations:
> 65. Here we come up against the great question that lies behind all these
> considerations.-For someone might object against me: "You take the easy way
> out! You talk about all sorts of language-games, but have nowhere said what
> the essence of a language-game, and hence of language, is: what is common to
> all these activities, and what makes them into language or parts of
> language. So you let yourself off the very part of the investigation that
> once gave you yourself most headache, the part about the general form of
> propositions and of language."
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> And this is true.悠nstead of producing something common to all that we call
> language, I am saying that these phenomena have no one thing in common which
> makes us use the same word for all,傭ut that they are related to one another
> in many different ways. And it is because of this relationship, or these
> relationships, that we call them all "language". I will try to explain this.
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> Consider for example the proceedings that we call "games". I mean
> board-games, card-games, Olympic games, and so on. What is common to them
> all?優on't say: "There must be something common or they would not be called
> 'games'" but look and see whether there is anything common to all.友or if you
> look at them you will not see something that is common to all, but
> similarities, relationships, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat:
> don't think, but look!有ook for example at board-games, with their
> multifarious relationships. ...
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> 67. I can think of no better expression to characterize these similarities
> than "family resemblances"; for the various resemblances between members of
> a family: build, features, colour of eyes, gait, temperament, etc. etc.
> overlap and cries-cross in the same way.輸nd I shall say: 'games' form a
> family.
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> I really love this guy!
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> On Jan 1, 2011, at 11:00 PM, mike cole wrote:
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> > It is my sense that perhaps we have reached a plateau in our discussion
> of
> > Imitation and the Zoped.
> > We have a number of examples of different "kinds" of imitation. But
> > surprisingly (why did I not see this coming?) we were less clear about
> zoped
> > than imitation, and perhaps owing to this lack of clarity we veered of to
> > consider (e.g., we used the method of dual stimulation on ourselves)
> > imagination and creativity as a way of better specifying the senses in
> which
> > we meant "imitation."
> >
> > The question for me is, where to now? My intuition tells me that we ought
> to
> > consolidate our accumulated material about imitation in relation to
> > imagination and creativity and then return to consider what a zoped is (I
> am
> > talking about pedagogy with a little magic here, Lois, since it is part
> of
> > my understand of the ZBR, but can translate among acronyms if they do
> not
> > proliferate too much!)
> > :-)
> >
> > I am pretty clear about David's advice that take the
> unconcious/conscioius
> > distinction seriously. It is going to become important when we think
> about
> > imitation vis a vis the zoped.It is my sense that we are collectively
> > unclear on this score. Ana ( I think! So many interesting notes),
> suggested
> > that even adults may (perhaps must) imitate unconsciously as a condition
> of
> > social interaction. That accords with my experience in dealing in a local
> > language that is not my own and a variety of unsystematic observations
> that
> > Ana's note brings to mind. Ana also reminds of the many social-pragmatic
> > functions of different kinds of imitation, making any hard and fast scale
> > difficult to create.
> >
> > Now all we need is for the New Year's Fairy to jump up and hand us a
> > summary!
> >
> >
> > mike
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