Re: [xmca] Re: fiction as simulation

[David Cross <d.cross@tcu.edu>]

Seems that Kieran Egan's "Educated Mind" might be useful in this regard.

Neat paper ... thanks Mike!

David Cross
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On Dec 21, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Ageliki Nicolopoulou wrote:

> Thanks, Mike, for this very useful article. This relates a lot to  
> what I
> have been trying to do these past few years and it pulls the adult
> literature well together.  My work has centered more on preschoolers
> spontaneous (fantasy) stories and I have tried to find ways to analyze
> them, which goes beyond just using structural criteria but also
> incorporates content in a serious way (that is, it incorporates  
> content
> and structure).  I have also argued (as do Mar & Oatley, but for  
> adults)
> for the significant of character in children's narratives (whether for
> learning to comprehend or tell stories) and I'm continuing to think
> about these issues. More recently, I have devoted my attention/ 
> effort in
> creating an intervention programs using commercially available
> children's books to promote narrative comprehension as well as social
> understanding, especially for low-income children.  As I'm in the  
> midst
> of writing about these issues, this article is very useful.
>
> Thanks again,
> Ageliki
>
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>
> mike cole wrote:
> > Of course, i *would *forget to attach the article. Here it is.
> > mike
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 4:56 PM, mike cole<lchcmike@gmail.com>   
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Sorting through all the unread journals and seeking to bring order  
> > > to the
> > > helterskelter
> > > of my intellectual meanderings, i came across this article that I  
> > > think
> > > should hold some
> > > interest for xmca-o-philes.
> > >
> > > As some of you know, I have an abiding interest in the idea of  
> > > tertiary
> > > artifacts, works of
> > > art, for Wartofsky (so I learned from Yrjo), play, "alternative  
> > > worlds"
> > > like the 5th Dimension
> > > that Peg Griffin invented and I have played in for a long time.  
> > > But I also
> > > teach and think (think and
> > > teach?) about various communication media including novels and  
> > > sitcoms.
> > > This article caught
> > > my attention in that odd nexus of interests: fiction as  
> > > "simulations," or,
> > > we might say, tertiary artifacts, or we might say, "tools to think  
> > > with."
> > >
> > > Delete or read along, as the mood catches you.
> > > mike
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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