Looking Closely: Toward a Natural History of Human Ingenuity

McDermott, Ray; Raley, J.Michael

doi:10.4135/9781446268278.n20

Cited by 29 publications

(28 citation statements)

References 14 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…All human activity is always socially organized; in fact, as McDermott and Raley () have argued, “the social world is always well ordered” (p. 372). Let us consider a common scenario and set of assumptions about successful students in a science classroom as an example of this social order and its local complexity.…”

Section: Structure–agency Dialecticmentioning

confidence: 99%

The possibilities and limits of the structure-agency dialectic in advancing science for all

Gutiérrez

Barton

2015

J Res Sci Teach

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In this special issue, the structure-agency dialectic is used to shift the analytic frame in science education from focusing on youth as in need of remediation to rethinking new arrangements, tools, and forms of assistance and participation in support of youth learning science. This shift from "fixing" the individual to re-mediating and transforming the functional system is key to reimagining new forms of learning and doing science that are tied to the imaginings of new futures, trajectories, and identities. In this manuscript, we discuss the major contributions of these studies in the special issue. In so doing, we seek to lay out both the possibilities and limits of the structure-agency dialectic in advancing science for all. We suggest that social and pedagogical imaginaries enable one to move the structure-agency dialectic towards transformative ends. We further suggest that to account more actively for how position and power shape the ways in which individuals seek to take action, the meanings they ascribe to such action, symbolically and otherwise, we must be ready to interrogate the relation between structure and agency and issues of equity and consequential and valued forms of science learning in local environments and in larger educational systems.

show abstract

Section: Structure–agency Dialecticmentioning

confidence: 99%

The possibilities and limits of the structure-agency dialectic in advancing science for all

Gutiérrez

Barton

2015

J Res Sci Teach

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Com isso, queremos dizer que não veríamos aqui a engenhosidade (McDermott & Raley, 2011) de Wilson para expressar sua condição e de Lívia para educar. Para nós, contudo, esse é um entre tantos os momentos em que presenciamos a realização concreta do PPP da escola, que prima por inclusão e é construído conjuntamente em diversas instâncias por educadores que se engajam arduamente na sua realização prática.…”

Section: Espunclassified

“…Entendendo as ações a partir da aproximação das perspectivas dos participantes e, assim, descentralizando nossa perspectiva do que está acontecendo naquele aqui-e-agora, nos mantemos atentos para evitar a adoção do modelo de mundo do colonizador (Wiley, 2006: 142), em que especialistas acadêmicos salientam aspectos de uma grande narrativa epistêmica, composta por discursos que sustentam a sua falsa superioridade, segundo a qual "para progredir, desenvolverse ou modernizer-se, a periferia deve receber conhecimento e técnicas difundidas do centro em vez de em razão de sua própria inventividade". Em suma, a etnografi a nos permite ver e descrever a engenhosidade humana (McDermott & Raley, 2011) que vale a pena difundir.…”

Section: Espunclassified

Olhares circunstanciados: etnografia da linguagem e pesquisa em Linguística Aplicada no Brasil

Garcez

Schulz

2015

DELTA

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…A second combination that we find is missing are the non‐mechanical forms of representation in the context of tight translations (See Table I: Column 7). A rare example for such non‐mechanical forms of representation is David Efron's research on gestures of migrants (Efron ; also see McDermott and Raley : 375–81). Efron took issue with the claim of German scholars that the wide‐ranging gestures of Jews and southern Italians are a sign of a lack of intelligence.…”

Section: What Is Missing: Visual Loose Translations and Proper Tight mentioning

confidence: 99%

The media of sociology: tight or loose translations?

Guggenheim

2015

British Journal of Sociology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Abstract:Sociologists have increasingly come to recognize that the discipline has unduly privileged textual representations, but efforts to incorporate visual and other media are still only in their beginning. This paper develops an analysis of the ways objects of knowledge are translated into other media, in order to understand the visual practices of sociology and to point out unused possibilities. I argue that the discourse on visual sociology, by assuming that photographs are less objective than text, is based on an asymmetric mediadeterminism and on a misleading notion of objectivity. Instead, I suggest to analyze media with the concept of translations. I introduce several kinds of translations, most centrally the distinction between tight and loose ones. I show that many sciences, such as biology, focus on tight translations, using a variety of media and manipulating both research objects and representations. Sociology, in contrast, uses both tight and loose translations, but uses the latter only for texts. For visuals, sociology restricts itself to what I call "the documentary": focusing on mechanical recording technologies without manipulating either the object of research or the representation. I conclude by discussing three rare examples of what is largely excluded in sociology: visual loose translations, visual tight translations based on non-mechanical recording technologies, and visual tight translations based on mechanical recording technologies that include the manipulation of both object and representation.

show abstract

Looking Closely: Toward a Natural History of Human Ingenuity

Cited by 29 publications

References 14 publications

The possibilities and limits of the structure-agency dialectic in advancing science for all

The possibilities and limits of the structure-agency dialectic in advancing science for all

Olhares circunstanciados: etnografia da linguagem e pesquisa em Linguística Aplicada no Brasil

The media of sociology: tight or loose translations?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About