Re: [xmca] Summer reading

From: E Duvall <duvalleg who-is-at comcast.net> Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 09:20:19 PDT · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Mon Oct 08 2007 - 06:02:19 PDT

--
He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by storm.
-- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Emily Duvall
Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
College of Education
Penn State University
256 Chambers Bldg.
University Park , PA  16802
814-861-3315 (home)
814-404-6175 (cell)
814-863-4511 (office)
FAX: 814-863-7602
edd130@psu.edu 
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu>
> at the risk of pre-empting Emily's reply....the first usage of this term that 
> I'm 
> aware of comes from a guy named Charles Suhor, who to my knowledge coined 
> the term in the following article: 
> Suhor, Charles. "Towards a Semiotics-Based Curriculum." Journal of Curriculum 
> Studies, 16(3) July-September 1984, 247-57
> 
> The simple definition is that it involves translating an idea across symbol 
> systems, e.g., drawing your understanding of a poem. I've referenced this 
> article 
> many times when writing about students interpreting literature through art, 
> music, dance, etc.
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:35:48 -0500
> >From: Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu>  
> >Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading  
> >To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >
> >Emily,
> >
> >Can you give us a quick definition of transmediation, and say a bit more
> >about Berghoff's work?
> >
> >Martin
> >
> >
> >On 7/17/07 7:22 AM, "Emily Duvall" <duvalleg@comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks Mary,
> >> I went up to http://www.witness.co.za/ and the article is called "Art of
> >> Darkness" by Sue Segar. It's bout the work of Eric Miller, but also
> >> connected to a book he helped with, "Reality Bites: An African Decade"
> >> by Gorrel Espelund, Jesper Strudsholm and Eric Miller, in which there is
> >> a story about a young woman abducted into the LRA as a child. Our
> >> subject, Summer Reading, is definitely striking a chord of interest for
> >> me. There seems to be much that brings together my research and
> >> humanitarian interests.
> >> I wanted to add, Martin, that transmediation, in general, might be a
> >> direction to take with the child soldiers you hope to work with. It fits
> >> nicely into Vygotskian based work - see Berghoff, for example.
> >> ~ Em
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Mary van der Riet wrote:
> >>> Hi Martin
> >>> if you do an internet search for The Natal Witness (SA based
> >>> newspaper), and for the edition of July 14 2007, there is an article on
> >>> an art exhibition related to the LRA child soldiers (the exhibition is
> >>> either in Cape Town or Durban at the moment)
> >>> Mary
> >>> 
> >>> Mary van der Riet; School of Psychology; University of KwaZulu-Natal
> >>> Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209
> >>> 
> >>> email: vanderriet@ukzn.ac.za
> >>> tel: 033 260 6163;  fax: 033 2605809
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>>   
> >>>>>> Martin Packer <packer@duq.edu> 2007/07/14 04:22 AM >>>
> >>>>>>         
> >>> 
> >>> Last year I had the opportunity to talk with staff at the Colombian
> >>> Ministry
> >>> of Education in Bogotá, and learned from them about the problems of
> >>> the
> >>> Œreinserted¹ children - former child soldiers who were recruited or
> >>> simply
> >>> kidnapped by guerilla or paramilitary groups there. As these children
> >>> are
> >>> escaping, or as the groups are disbanding, they are becoming the
> >>> responsibility of the Ministry. We started to think about a possible
> >>> research project that might benefit all concerned. One possibility we
> >>> discussed was that we might learn a great deal from these children
> >>> about the
> >>> rationality and motivation of the guerilla and paramilitary groups -
> >>> that
> >>> interviews with them could throw light on the sources of conflict and
> >>> possible pathways to peace for these groups, and also on the best way
> >>> to
> >>> facilitate the reintegration of the children into mainstream society.
> >>> 
> >>> If anyone would be interested in collaborating on such a project, or
> >>> has
> >>> suggestions on how best to carry it out, or improve it, please let me
> >>> know.
> >>> 
> >>> Martin
> >>>  
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> On 7/13/07 8:09 PM, "Cunningham, Donald James" 
> <cunningh@indiana.edu>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>   
> >>>> Em, I first heard of the book here:
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>     
> >>> http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/videos/
> celebrity_inter
> >>> 
> >>>   
> >>>> views/index.jhtml?playVideo=82274
> >>>> 
> >>>> An odd source, I know, but Jon Stewart may be our most astute
> >>>>     
> >>> journalist
> >>>   
> >>>> today.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Persevere!
> >>>> 
> >>>> Don Cunningham
> >>>> Indiana University
> >>>> 
> >>>> Ancora Imparo!
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>     
> >>> [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> >>>   
> >>>> On Behalf Of E Duvall
> >>>> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 4:58 PM
> >>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> >>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Summer reading
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you for the recommendation Donald... I went up on line to
> >>>> http://www.alongwaygone.com/index.html
> >>>> and read about the book, read an excerpt and watched a video
> >>>>     
> >>> recording.
> >>>   
> >>>> This short visit was... that feeling you get when you don't know
> >>>>     
> >>> what's
> >>>   
> >>>> around the corner, but you need to look some truth in the eye but
> >>>>     
> >>> you're
> >>>   
> >>>> scared to look because you don't know what the looking will do to
> >>>>     
> >>> you.
> >>>   
> >>>> I'm a little scared to read the book;  I hope to persevere.
> >>>> ~ Em
> >>>> 
> >>>> --
> >>>> He only earns his freedom and his life, who takes them every day by
> >>>> storm.
> >>>> -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe
> >>>> 
> >>>> Emily Duvall
> >>>> Doctoral Candidate (ABD) / Graduate Assistant-Instructor
> >>>> Language and Literacy Education (LLED)
> >>>> Department of Curriculum and Instruction
> >>>> College of Education
> >>>> Penn State University
> >>>> 256 Chambers Bldg.
> >>>> University Park , PA  16802
> >>>> 814-861-3315 (home)
> >>>> 814-404-6175 (cell)
> >>>> 814-863-4511 (office)
> >>>> FAX: 814-863-7602
> >>>> edd130@psu.edu 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>> 
> >>>>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >>>> From: "Cunningham, Donald James" <cunningh@indiana.edu>
> >>>>     
> >>>>> Tony,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Instead of the Garfinkle book you might read "A Long Way Gone" by
> >>>>> Ishmael Beah. It has nothing and everything to do with the issues
> >>>>>       
> >>> we
> >>>   
> >>>>> have been discussing...........djc
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Don Cunningham
> >>>>> Indiana University
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Ancora Imparo!
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>       
> >>> [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu]
> >>>   
> >>>>> On Behalf Of Tony Whitson
> >>>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 9:26 AM
> >>>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>> Subject: [xmca] no Garfinkel book, after all
> >>>>> 
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