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The Problem of Context

The Problem of Context. Talk by Andy Blunden 23 rd February 2011. Michael Cole’s investigation of learning in context.

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The Problem of Context

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  1. The Problem of Context Talk by Andy Blunden 23rd February 2011

  2. Michael Cole’s investigation of learning in context

  3. “cultural differences in cognition reside more in the situations to which particular cognitive processes are applied than in the existence of a [cognitive] process in one cultural group and its absence in the other.” Michael Cole

  4. What was it about the context which rendered the actions meaningful and how could differences in cultural context be overcome? Michael Cole

  5. “As often as not the most visible consequence of schooling was alienation of the young from their parents and from the community’s traditional forms of economic life” Michael Cole

  6. What is Context? exosystem macrosystem mesosystem microsystem Bronfenbrenner’s idea of context

  7. What is Context? context is: “... not just the physical and socioeconomical environment with all the possibilities and tools that it affords but also ... the intellectual environment in the sense of available ideas, traditions of thinking, and so on. The physical, technological, socioeconomical, and intellectual environments and their complex interdependency determine the individual’s possibilities.” Rene van der Veer

  8. What is Context? “what may be an inhospitable environment for one organism may be an El Dorado for another.” Rene van der Veer

  9. What is Context? “in a perezhivanie we are always dealing with an indivisible unity of personal characteristics and situational characteristics, which are represented in the perezhivanie.” Vygotsky

  10. What is Context? “1. There is a basic unit common to the analysis of both cultures’ and individuals’ psychological processes. 2. This unit consists of an individual engaged in goal-directed activity under conventionalized constraints. This unit is variously designated as ‘activity’, a ‘task’, an ‘event’. ....” Mike Cole

  11. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Environment Everything is …

  12. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Tradition • Motivates • Develops • Restricts

  13. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents What rules apply here? Genre

  14. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Frame

  15. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Narrative

  16. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Discourse

  17. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Field

  18. Conceptions of Contextfrom other currents Once we set up a dichotomy between the individual and their societal context at the level of theoretical genres, we cement in place a dichotomy people feel in their lives.

  19. Collaborative Projects Contextere = “to weave together”

  20. Collaborative Projects The project is a process in which a concept is realised.

  21. Collaboration &Agency, Identity and Ethics Me, in 1966 Contextere = “to weave together”

  22. Collaborative Projects Any Questions?

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