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| Charmian | This is a test blog. | January 20, 2010, 3:41 pm |
| Bridget Somekh | I\'m doing this for myself this time! Hi friends I had a great time with Niki Davis and colleagues at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, including attending the Inaugural Symposium of New Zealand CARN. But it\'s good to be home, and fun to be working with Morten Nissen on editing the Special Issue of Mind Culture and Activity on CHAT and Action Research. Thank you to whoever uploaded my last email about the SI to the new CARN Blog - it was great to find it there when we were looking at the CARN website at the NZ conference. Please let me know if you are thinking of submitting an article for the SI and, if so, when we are likely to receive it. The deadline has been put back to Oct 31 2009. All other information you need is in the attached \'call\'. Very best wishes Bridget | August 6, 2009, 4:12 pm |
| Bridget Somekh | Hi friends - If you are interested in Activity Theory and other socio-cultural theories such as CoP, you might like to submit an article to the SI of Mind Culture and Activity that I am editing. Here is the information you need: Call for Papers Special Issue on “Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Action Research” Mind, Culture and Activity Link Journal: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/1074-9039 Submissions: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mca Prepared by Bridget Somekh and Morten Nissen Deadlines First version submitted: October 31 2009 Reviewing and decisions for accepting papers completed by: April 30 2010 INVITATION At the ISCAR conference in San Diego in September 2008, at an invited symposium on “The Social Construction of CHAT: An Intervention,” a lively debate developed on the relationship between Action Research and CHAT. Yrjö Engeström expressed the view that Action Research is “not a method” and has no value for those engaged in CHAT, an opinion that was contested by several members of the audience. Anna Stetsenko, another contributor to the symposium, reminded us that Lev Vygotsky and Kurt Lewin, who is generally acknowledged as the of the first to use the term Action Research, were friends and influenced by each other’s work. Since then, both CHAT and Action Research have grown into very heterogeneous approaches, each with an ongoing discussion between diverse positions on how to relate theory, research, and practice, yet perhaps also with some common ground. To continue the debate, the Editors of MCA have invited Bridget Somekh, co-Editor with Susan Noffke of the Handbook of Educational Action Research (Sage, 2009), to be Guest Editor of a Special Issue of Mind, Culture and Activity. Bridget has been a member of ISCAR, and previously ISCRAT, for the last ten years and uses both CHAT and Action Research in her own work. The Special Issue will be co-edited by Morten Nissen, who has written and co-edited a number of texts on action / practice research in the CHAT tradition, and is member of the ISCAR executive committee. The aim of the Special Issue will be to provide a platform for comprehensive and critical discussion of the issues arising from methodology and practice in the experience of those working in the field of socio-cultural research with a CHAT and/or Action Research orientation. The special issue will examine but will not be limited to: 1. In what sense CHAT and Action Research can be said to be methodologies, including informed critique of either or both approaches 2. How and why some “action-oriented” methodologies articulated in terms of CHAT (e.g. “developmental work research” or “practice research”) take up, ignore or reject elements from the Action Research tradition 3. The relationship between mind and action in CHAT and how this compares with work on reflection in action research 4. How the problem-focus in action research compares with the focus in CHAT on understanding the objects and motives of activity 5. How the Marxist legacy in CHAT compares with the use of critical theory in some approaches to action research when the field of problems and references is widened to social theory and philosophy. 6. The political in action research and in CHAT – in areas such as the politics of identity and community, the politics of knowledge 7. Comparisons between fundamental theoretical ideas in CHAT and Action Research, such as those were developed by Vygotsky and Lewin and their followers 8. Historical accounts of the work of Vygotsky and Lewin during their lifetime and the extent to which each may have influenced the other GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS We will consider articles up to 8,000 words in length (double spaced, 1-inch margins top and bottom, 1.25-inch margins left and right, including 250-word abstract, references, notes, figures, and tables). Please keep in mind when preparing your manuscript that the MCA readership is unusually broad (anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, sociologists, educators and public policy people are all among our subscribers) and avoid jargon that is familiar only to researchers in one field. Also note that papers are to be submitted to MCA through the online mechanism and authors need to indicate that theirs is a submission to this special issue (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mca). Deadlines: First version submitted: October 31, 2009 Reviewing and revision of accepted papers completed: April 30, 2010 COMMUNICATION Please, in addition to sbmitting to the MCA website, send your submissions in an MS Word file (including all relevant contact information) to: Bridget Somekh (b.somekh@mmu.ac.uk) and Morten Nissen (morten.nissen@psy.ku.dk) | March 30, 2009, 2:21 am |
| Charmian Wilby | Hi everyone - we have put in place a captcha device on the CARN blog. This means that you will be asked to type in some text to verify that you are a genuine blogger and not a machine!. Successful posts will now automatically appear meaning there is no need for us to moderate postings anymore, so your posting should appear as soon as you send it, which will be more convenient for us all. If you encounter any problems, please let me know. | March 24, 2009, 11:12 am |
| Charmian Wilby | Hi Zoe - no, you are not doing anything wrong, but unfortunately we have had some problems with spamming, that is we have been targetted by automatic comments which is quite common among the blogging community, so our web master deleted all the items and yours probably got deleted by mistake. | March 10, 2009, 12:08 pm |
| Zoe Parker | Delighted to see a blog but I thought I had posted a comment about Kath Green\'s memorial event and don\'t see it so am I doing something wrong? | March 5, 2009, 9:58 am |
| Mary | Love it Steven! I\'m currently thinking about the next Northern CARN day, and wondered what might be of interest to people? (I have some thoughts, but would welcome some local, or not so local, input too. | February 15, 2009, 6:14 pm |
| Steven Naylor | Hi everyone. Hope you all like the redesign of the website. Don\'t forget this is a collaborative place and it would be good to get more information about people\'s research for the \'Members Activities\' section. Write a short piece about your current id | February 11, 2009, 11:27 am |
| Mary McAteer | Hello everyone - I\'m delighted to see a blog feature here, and look forward to many interesting and fruitful conversations! | February 4, 2009, 5:43 pm |
| Charmian Wilby | Welcome to all CARN members! This space is for you to communicate with each other about CARN related subjects and to initiate discussions. Please use and enjoy! | February 3, 2009, 2:41 pm |