a "doc" chronicle

Yesterday was an excellent work day! I worked all day, two periods of four hours. It felt as if I was back to my Gainesville pace. The conditions were good, no worries about having to take my iBook to the shop, or our PC to get fixed, or having to change the Internet connection because the dial-up was too slow. Everything has been taken care off and now was time to work.

I finished reading Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation (Lave & Wenger, 1991). This book is about apprenticeship and communities of practice, about learning more than teaching. As I was reading I remembered some of the courses I took at UF, the way we worked together and shared ideas, the way we applied what we read, as in communities where everyone was there to collaborate with each other, as in a community of academicians.

I’ve decided to follow my advisor’s advice and write the revisions to chapter 3. I’ve been prolonging this moment, insecure of what I know, always thinking that I needed to find another piece of information. This could be a never ending story, I know! So, although I will keep reading some more about social constructionism – I already bought Social Constructionism of What? (I. Hacking) and Social Construction: A Reader (K. Gergen) – I am making a pause to write. New revisions will be needed after this draft, but at least I will be a little closer to a final revision.

My plan looks like this:

• This week – revisions to chapter 3
• Next week – start organizing the data set

References:

Gergen, M. & Gergen, K. J. (Eds.) (2003). Social Construction: A reader. NY: SAGE Publications.

Hacking, I. (2000). The Social Construction of What? MA: Harvard University Press.

Lave, J. & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. NY: Cambridge University Press.