After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the seats of learning moved to Constantinople and Baghdad... more After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the seats of learning moved to Constantinople and Baghdad. With few texts, poorly distributed in Europe, learning was thin and static for over five centuries. Yet within this bleak landscape, the reintroduction of the texts of the world produced institutions, practices, and forces that were to be the basis of modern learning, knowledge production, and scholarly communication that now encompass the globe.
Work on diversity has highlighted what we bring with us in our family and community histories and... more Work on diversity has highlighted what we bring with us in our family and community histories and in our linguistic and cultural practices and knowledge. This work has helped us recognize the many peoples that make up our nations and the resources they bring; it has been important in disrupting homogenizing, hierarchical and suppressing forces. It has included more people into national participation and allowed people to include more of themselves in our common life. Yet ultimately this is a diversity that looks backward to where we were born and those we were born among. The complexity and fluidity of modern life suggests another way to look at diversity-in the uniqueness we each develop growing from our home communities into the many social configuration the modern world offers. The modern world of professions and workplaces, economic and geographic mobility, virtual and material affiliations, and urban remixes offers possibilities of people leading lives far different from those ...
Symposium on Internationalization Editor's Note: This issue of the journal, much like the las... more Symposium on Internationalization Editor's Note: This issue of the journal, much like the last three June issues of College Composition and Communication, also includes a symposium, in this case addressing internationalization, a topic of increasing interest to the field. Helping us understand something about how this interest developed, former Chair of CCCC Charles Bazerman, who is also the Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR), opens the sympo-sium, citing his own wealth of experiences from around the world and, as his title suggests, arguing that the we of writing studies is a global we. Our second contribution, authored by Terry Zawacki and Anna Habib, focuses on inter-national students, provides details located in work with these students, and in the process, demonstrates how our work with these students can inform our work with all students. There is a lot happening in the world. Specifically, there is a lot happening in higher ...
Information is humanly created for human purposes in specific historical situations. This study e... more Information is humanly created for human purposes in specific historical situations. This study examines how an anti-nuclear test activist group in the Cold War period, to foster public opposition to government policy, asserted an alternative understanding of information against centralized governmental definitions of information. Such citizen information, validated by citizen scientists to serve the needs and concerns of citizens, pervaded the antiwar, environmental, and consumer movements of the second half of the 20th century. An enthymematic analysis of the newsletter of the Greater St. Louis Citizens' Committee for Nuclear Information and successor journals reveals multiple assumptions embodied in beliefs and practices of citizen information. These beliefs and practices concern threats to everyday life, orientation toward threat-reducing action, large interested institutions that limit access to relevant information, science as an independent and objective source of informa...
ABSTRACT Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and an... more ABSTRACT Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and antisocial behavior tend to have little place in Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian studies, giving the impression that all humans are competent and cooperative participants in social interaction. Nonetheless, Vygotsky himself was interested in psychiatric issues and contributed to psychiatric practice. Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal psychiatry is compatible with and adds to socio-historical psychology an account of the origins and consequences of anxiety and the anxiety system. Sullivan provided a Vygotsky-like account of a person trying to grow into the social world he or she is born into and trying to satisfy needs with available people, themselves already socialized, enculturated, and formed as selves. Anthony B. Gabriele's little-known practical elaborations of interpersonal psychiatry, further, are consistent with situated micro-analytical approaches to learning within social contexts.
ABSTRACT Not all scientists or researchers need to communicate their research in English. However... more ABSTRACT Not all scientists or researchers need to communicate their research in English. However, those who do face a complexity of challenges as we discussed in an earlier publication where we examined the struggles of non-native English Speakers (NNES) to become engaged in international scientific fields conducted in English. There we argue that lack of experience and fluency in English impede their immersion in cutting edge science, but lack of immersion in cutting-edge science limits their experience in scientific English, impeding growth of fluency to support more complete, immersive participation. Thus, scientific success breeds linguistic success and linguistic success supports scientific success, in a version of the "Matthew Effect" by which the rich get richer and the poor get marginalized (Merton, 1968). Applied linguistics studies of the experience of NNES scientists writing in English for international publication have focused on novice scientists at the periphery of their fields who have not yet achieved success or fluency. However, there is very little avail-able research on NNES scientists who have managed, in spite of the well-documented problems, to succeed. In this current chapter, we explore more fully what it means for an NNES scientist to overcome linguistic and scientific challenges to become a successful published researcher in an English-dominant discipline. In particular, we study the psychological orientation that a group of successful NNES physicists and mathematicians working in Mexico have developed in the course of their careers. We find that they are deeply immersed and invested in the work of science. They strongly identify with their scientific careers, played out within an international community to which they contribute by their publications. We find that their self-reported confidence in their expertise is matched by a set of dispositions and orientations similar to those of immersed players of computer games.
... frameworks that lead to a negotiation of meeting that occurs in confrontation with the text.(... more ... frameworks that lead to a negotiation of meeting that occurs in confrontation with the text.(Martin Nystrand and Louise Phelps have each ... of literature, or poems and stories that evoke the familiar themes and raise the old songs (for example, James Baldwin's" Sonny's Blues" can ...
L'A. propose une approche rhetorique de la construction du sens dans differents types de text... more L'A. propose une approche rhetorique de la construction du sens dans differents types de textes. Il prend, pour etayer sa demonstration, l'exemple d'un enonce individualise dans un champ discursif tres reglemente et coercitif : la declaration d'impots sur le revenu. Il veut montrer comment les representations sont contraintes et determinees par les differents genres et comment elles font partie des enonces individuels
... But even more, it can provide the means for more informed and thoughtful participation. ... H... more ... But even more, it can provide the means for more informed and thoughtful participation. ... However, these revelations, along with the rejection of the socioeconomic relations of dominance, have not meant an end of the genre of ethnography. ... genres, reconceived more deeply. ...
... The last three essays in this volume (forming part 4, "Experiencing our Construction... more ... The last three essays in this volume (forming part 4, "Experiencing our Constructions") represent the ... closely on one friend, one student, or one research subject caught within a communica ... in the role of curriculum designer or the manager of a large organization considering the ...
... LETTERS AND THE SOCIAL GROUNDING OF GENRES 25 sharing of new ... process he began using pre-p... more ... LETTERS AND THE SOCIAL GROUNDING OF GENRES 25 sharing of new ... process he began using pre-printed forms (identified as form 6) that had Edison company information, specific places for the contractual legal information and background information on the ...
After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the seats of learning moved to Constantinople and Baghdad... more After the collapse of the Roman Empire, the seats of learning moved to Constantinople and Baghdad. With few texts, poorly distributed in Europe, learning was thin and static for over five centuries. Yet within this bleak landscape, the reintroduction of the texts of the world produced institutions, practices, and forces that were to be the basis of modern learning, knowledge production, and scholarly communication that now encompass the globe.
Work on diversity has highlighted what we bring with us in our family and community histories and... more Work on diversity has highlighted what we bring with us in our family and community histories and in our linguistic and cultural practices and knowledge. This work has helped us recognize the many peoples that make up our nations and the resources they bring; it has been important in disrupting homogenizing, hierarchical and suppressing forces. It has included more people into national participation and allowed people to include more of themselves in our common life. Yet ultimately this is a diversity that looks backward to where we were born and those we were born among. The complexity and fluidity of modern life suggests another way to look at diversity-in the uniqueness we each develop growing from our home communities into the many social configuration the modern world offers. The modern world of professions and workplaces, economic and geographic mobility, virtual and material affiliations, and urban remixes offers possibilities of people leading lives far different from those ...
Symposium on Internationalization Editor's Note: This issue of the journal, much like the las... more Symposium on Internationalization Editor's Note: This issue of the journal, much like the last three June issues of College Composition and Communication, also includes a symposium, in this case addressing internationalization, a topic of increasing interest to the field. Helping us understand something about how this interest developed, former Chair of CCCC Charles Bazerman, who is also the Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research (ISAWR), opens the sympo-sium, citing his own wealth of experiences from around the world and, as his title suggests, arguing that the we of writing studies is a global we. Our second contribution, authored by Terry Zawacki and Anna Habib, focuses on inter-national students, provides details located in work with these students, and in the process, demonstrates how our work with these students can inform our work with all students. There is a lot happening in the world. Specifically, there is a lot happening in higher ...
Information is humanly created for human purposes in specific historical situations. This study e... more Information is humanly created for human purposes in specific historical situations. This study examines how an anti-nuclear test activist group in the Cold War period, to foster public opposition to government policy, asserted an alternative understanding of information against centralized governmental definitions of information. Such citizen information, validated by citizen scientists to serve the needs and concerns of citizens, pervaded the antiwar, environmental, and consumer movements of the second half of the 20th century. An enthymematic analysis of the newsletter of the Greater St. Louis Citizens' Committee for Nuclear Information and successor journals reveals multiple assumptions embodied in beliefs and practices of citizen information. These beliefs and practices concern threats to everyday life, orientation toward threat-reducing action, large interested institutions that limit access to relevant information, science as an independent and objective source of informa...
ABSTRACT Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and an... more ABSTRACT Psychiatric issues such as the formation of intimate bonds, personality, anxiety, and antisocial behavior tend to have little place in Vygotskian and neo-Vygotskian studies, giving the impression that all humans are competent and cooperative participants in social interaction. Nonetheless, Vygotsky himself was interested in psychiatric issues and contributed to psychiatric practice. Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal psychiatry is compatible with and adds to socio-historical psychology an account of the origins and consequences of anxiety and the anxiety system. Sullivan provided a Vygotsky-like account of a person trying to grow into the social world he or she is born into and trying to satisfy needs with available people, themselves already socialized, enculturated, and formed as selves. Anthony B. Gabriele's little-known practical elaborations of interpersonal psychiatry, further, are consistent with situated micro-analytical approaches to learning within social contexts.
ABSTRACT Not all scientists or researchers need to communicate their research in English. However... more ABSTRACT Not all scientists or researchers need to communicate their research in English. However, those who do face a complexity of challenges as we discussed in an earlier publication where we examined the struggles of non-native English Speakers (NNES) to become engaged in international scientific fields conducted in English. There we argue that lack of experience and fluency in English impede their immersion in cutting edge science, but lack of immersion in cutting-edge science limits their experience in scientific English, impeding growth of fluency to support more complete, immersive participation. Thus, scientific success breeds linguistic success and linguistic success supports scientific success, in a version of the "Matthew Effect" by which the rich get richer and the poor get marginalized (Merton, 1968). Applied linguistics studies of the experience of NNES scientists writing in English for international publication have focused on novice scientists at the periphery of their fields who have not yet achieved success or fluency. However, there is very little avail-able research on NNES scientists who have managed, in spite of the well-documented problems, to succeed. In this current chapter, we explore more fully what it means for an NNES scientist to overcome linguistic and scientific challenges to become a successful published researcher in an English-dominant discipline. In particular, we study the psychological orientation that a group of successful NNES physicists and mathematicians working in Mexico have developed in the course of their careers. We find that they are deeply immersed and invested in the work of science. They strongly identify with their scientific careers, played out within an international community to which they contribute by their publications. We find that their self-reported confidence in their expertise is matched by a set of dispositions and orientations similar to those of immersed players of computer games.
... frameworks that lead to a negotiation of meeting that occurs in confrontation with the text.(... more ... frameworks that lead to a negotiation of meeting that occurs in confrontation with the text.(Martin Nystrand and Louise Phelps have each ... of literature, or poems and stories that evoke the familiar themes and raise the old songs (for example, James Baldwin's" Sonny's Blues" can ...
L'A. propose une approche rhetorique de la construction du sens dans differents types de text... more L'A. propose une approche rhetorique de la construction du sens dans differents types de textes. Il prend, pour etayer sa demonstration, l'exemple d'un enonce individualise dans un champ discursif tres reglemente et coercitif : la declaration d'impots sur le revenu. Il veut montrer comment les representations sont contraintes et determinees par les differents genres et comment elles font partie des enonces individuels
... But even more, it can provide the means for more informed and thoughtful participation. ... H... more ... But even more, it can provide the means for more informed and thoughtful participation. ... However, these revelations, along with the rejection of the socioeconomic relations of dominance, have not meant an end of the genre of ethnography. ... genres, reconceived more deeply. ...
... The last three essays in this volume (forming part 4, "Experiencing our Construction... more ... The last three essays in this volume (forming part 4, "Experiencing our Constructions") represent the ... closely on one friend, one student, or one research subject caught within a communica ... in the role of curriculum designer or the manager of a large organization considering the ...
... LETTERS AND THE SOCIAL GROUNDING OF GENRES 25 sharing of new ... process he began using pre-p... more ... LETTERS AND THE SOCIAL GROUNDING OF GENRES 25 sharing of new ... process he began using pre-printed forms (identified as form 6) that had Edison company information, specific places for the contractual legal information and background information on the ...
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