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ED737-004(Winter2004):TheoriesfortheAnalysisofPractice

JayLemke

Thursdays,1-4pm

Thiscoursewillexamineanumberoftheoriesofpracticethathaveproven

usefulbothineducationandinavarietyofotherfields.Itshouldbepossibletodevelopthesefurtherforthestudyofteachingandlearningaspractice.These

aretheoriesofmeaningfulhumanactionandactivity,includingdiscourse,analyzedintermsofuniqueandrecurringsocialpracticesorwaysofdoing,

fromsociology,anthropology,culturalpsychology,sociallinguistics,semiotics

andotherfields.Coursereadingsaredrawnbothfromgeneraltheoriesofpracticesuchastheseandfromspecificstudiesofeducationalpractice,including

workbyBall&Lampert,Wortham,Lemke,Palincsar,andothers.

I.TwoApproachestoTheorizingPractice

Lemke,J.L.(1990).MakingMeaning:ThePrinciplesofSocialSemioticsinTalkingScience:Language,Learning,andValues.NorwoodNJ:AblexPublishing.

Bourdieu,P.(1990).TheLogicofPractice.StanfordCA:StanfordUniversityPress.[chapters3and5]

II.TeachingandLearningasPractice

Ball,D.B.&Lampert,M.(1999)Multiplesofevidence,time,perspective:Revisingthestudyofteachingandlearning.InE.C.Lagemann&L.S.Shulman(Eds.)Issues

inEducationResearch:ProblemsandPossibilities.NY:Jossey-Bass,pp.371-398.

Palincsar,A.S.(1998).Socialconstructivistperspectivesonteachingand

learning.AnnualReviewofPsychology,(49),345-375.

III.CulturalTheory

Holland,Dorothy,WilliamLachicotte,Jr.,DebraSkinner,andCaroleCain(1998).IdentityandAgencyinCulturalWorlds.Cambridge,Mass:HarvardUniversity

Press.

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IV.ActivityTheory

Leontiev,A.N.(1978).Activity,consciousness,andpersonality.EnglewoodCliffs,

N.J.:Prentice-Hall.

Engestrm,Y.(1987).Learningbyexpanding:Anactivity-theoreticalapproachtodevelopmentalresearch.Helsinki:Orienta-Konsultit.[selections,availableonline]

Saxe,GeoffreyB.2002.Children'sDevelopingMathematicsinCollective

Practices:AFrameworkforAnalysis.InAnnaSfaardandKayMcClain,Eds.AnalyzingTools:PerspectivesontheRoleofDesignedArtifactsinMathematics

Learning.SpecialIssue,JournaloftheLearningSciences,11(2-3),275-300.

V.SocialLinguistics

Halliday,M.A.K.(1978).LanguageasSocialSemiotic.London:EdwardArnold.

[chapter6]

Halliday,M.A.K.(1993).Towardsalanguage-basedtheoryoflearning.LinguisticsandEducation,5(2),93-116.

Wortham,Stanton.2001.Interactionallysituatedcognition:Aclassroomexample.CognitiveScience,25,37-66.

VI.InteractionAnalysisSchegloff,E.A.(1987)'Analyzingsingleepisodesofinteraction:anexercisein

conversationanalysis',SocialPsychologyQuarterly50:101-14.

Goffman,Erving.1967.InteractionRitual:EssaysonFace-to-FaceBehavior.New

York:DoubledayAnchor.[selections]

Goffman,Erving.1974.FrameAnalysis:AnEssayontheOrganizationof

Experience.NewYork:HarperandRow.[selections]

VII.SituatedCognition

Lave,J.(1997).Thecultureofacquisitionandthepracticeofunderstanding.InD.

KirshnerandJ.Whitson,Eds.,SituatedCognition.Mahwah,NJ:Erlbaum.[pp.17-

36]

LemkeJ.L.(1997).Cognition,contextandlearning:asocialsemioticperspective.InD.KirshnerandJ.Whitson,Eds.,SituatedCognition.Mahwah,NJ:Erlbaum.[pp

37-55]

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Lemke,J.L."AcrosstheScalesofTime:Artifacts,Activities,andMeaningsin

EcosocialSystems"Mind,Culture,andActivity7(4):273-290.2000.

VIII.HowtoAnalyzePractice?

Hutchins,E.(1995).CognitionintheWild.Cambridge,MA:MITPress.[chapter7]

Latour,B.(1999).CirculatingReference.InPandora'sHope:EssaysontheRealityofScienceStudies.Cambridge,MA:HarvardUniversityPress.