Re: [xmca] VS: Coding Logical Sophistication in Dialogic Pedagogy

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

So the core of your project could be characterized as a an exploration of
the conditions that promote social or collective, intelligence, David? I am
thinking Dewey here. Or do I have it wrong?

The virtual realist/hypercontextualist antimony sure invites interesting
metaphors for how to characterize the process of superceding them. I am not
so sure about stradling as a metaphor for the requisite process of
unification rather than weaving.

signed
A hyper non-virtual contextual realist.
:-)
mike

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:51 AM, David H Kirshner <dkirsh@lsu.edu> wrote:

> Hi David
> Thanks for highlighting the bogeypersons of virtual-realists whose
> reductionist zeal leads to little of value and hypercontextualists whose
> wide-eyed wonder at the complexness of it all becomes its own grave—and for
> highlighting the virtues of straddling.
> Fortunately, our goal isn’t the normative project of thinking about how to
> get logically unsophisticated thinkers to become sophisticated. What we’re
> after are the processes at the group level that result in (what we predict
> will be) increasing sophistication overall. So, I think we’re already
> straddling.
> David
> PS. My thanks to those, on- and off-line, who already have responded to
> the request. We’ve gotten some interesting leads, and will report back on
> what we find.
>
>
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of kellogg
> Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 3:16 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: RE: [xmca] VS: Coding Logical Sophistication in Dialogic Pedagogy
>
>
> David:
>
>
>
> Your posting straddles two threads--Dialogic Pedagogy and coding. Let me
> see if I can do the same thing!
>
>
>
> There was a wonderful article by Alessandro Duranti on transcription in
> MCA a while back (Vol. 13 No. 4) where he points out that transcription IS
> coding. When you transcribe, you begin by making one of two assumptions,
> which Duranti calls "virtual realism" on the one hand and
> "hypercontextualism" on the other.
>
>
>
> Virtual realists are like children who think that sites on the internet
> are places they can actually visit. They talk to their transcripts as if
> the people in them were real. They look at transcripts and ask themselves
> which students are more logical and which students are less, and they try
> to figure out how the less logical students can be more like the more
> logical ones.
>
>
>
> Hypercontextualists are like escapees from Plato's cave. They are always
> saying "Yes, but it's more complicated than that" but they are not
> particularly good at saying why or why it matters. Duranti points out that
> there is a good reason for that: they imagine that there is an Edenic
> unmediated reality lying just beyond the horizon of the transcript to which
> the participants once had direct access. The task, by its very nature
> Sisyphean, is to try to reconstruct that unmediated reality and to hell
> with coding.
>
>
>
> Duranti's conclusion is that we have to give up the illusion that in
> transcribing we are recording what went on (and, I would hasten to add,
> that in coding we are evaluating and comparing what went on with some kind
> of norm). Now, my reasoning is a little different from Duranti's (it has to
> do with the distinction between "text" which is finished and complete and
> somehow "epic", locked in the past, and  "discourse" which is ongoing and
> by its very nature not finalizable), but as far as I can tell my
> conclusions are the same.
>
>
>
> Duranti says that you have to treat a particular transcript and a
> particular coding scheme as a particular point of view, and not as a
> picture of unmediated reality. The object of study then becomes the point
> of view and not the picture of unmediated reality. So I guess Duranti would
> say that the way to look at the data is to ask the student to (who is
> presumably the teacher) to find a MOST logical argument and a SECOND MOST
> logical argument (or something like that) and then maybe a LEAST logical
> argument and then to try to figure out what the two "logical" arguments
> have in common that the not-so-logical argument doesn't.
>
>
>
> That doesn't give you a coding scheme for the transcript. It's actually
> better, particularly for a student working under a professor like David
> Kirshner, whose main interest is always teasing apart the various threads
> of pedagogical thought in a given teacher. It gives you a coding scheme for
> understanding the teacher's point of view.
>
>
>
> Now, the reason I think this straddles both threads is that I find
> Duranti's article an almost perfect example of the kind of thing I would
> like to publish and yet I find almost impossible to publish. For many years
> this didn't bother me, because I didn't have to publish to keep my
> (extremely low paid) job, so I just wrote what I liked and didn't take much
> notice of the (increasingly hysterical) rejections that came in. But now,
> alas, I am in the position of most assistant professors; if I don't publish
> at least once a year, I will find myself without contract in my dotage. I
> guess that's the sad part of the situation, but who has time to cry about
> it?
>
>
>
> David Kellogg
>
> Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
>
>
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> 제목: [xmca] VS: Coding Logical Sophistication in Dialogic Pedagogy
> Hello,
>
> Phenomenography has been used with this kind of data but in the purpose of
> finding logical sophistication of arguments but to describe the variation
> of the ways of understandings (a.k.a. outcome space). The founder of
> phenomenography Ference Marton himself has done this kind of research.
>
> Rauno Huttunen
>
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> Aihe: [xmca] Coding Logical Sophistication in Dialogic Pedagogy
>
> Speaking of dialogic pedagogy--congratulations, Eugene!--a student of mine
> has taught a geometry class with a view to observing effects on the logical
> sophistication of students' argumentation.
> She's transcribed the data of classroom discussions, and is now trying to
> find a coding scheme for analyzing the logical sophistication of arguments.
> Does anyone have any leads on this?
> Thanks.
> David
>
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> On Behalf Of mike cole
> Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 8:51 PM
> To: xmca
> Subject: [xmca] Re: Dialogic Pedagogy Journal has been born!
>
> Hi- Sorry if this is a repeat.
>
> i think we all understand that the status of academic publishing is pretty
> sad and I think that we are all seeking a better set of practices --
> although there is probably no concensus on "better"
>
> So what better than to try to embody theory in practice and begin a
> dialogic journal? !!
>
> Thanks to Eugene and all his compatriots for opening up this new form of
> publication.
> Mike
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Eugene Matusov <ematusov@udel.edu<
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