Rita Keri - Academia.edu (original) (raw)
For more up to date info about my work, please visit ritakeri.com
Address: ritakeri.com
less
Uploads
Papers by Rita Keri
Acknowledgement: I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable critique, remar... more Acknowledgement: I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable critique, remarks, and suggestions, which were a great help in drawing up the present form of the paper. I am also grateful to the schools and the artist Katalin Soós for enabling and supporting my observations.
Drafts by Rita Keri
unpublished draft, 2011
I am making this draft version of the paper available here because some important theoretical poi... more I am making this draft version of the paper available here because some important theoretical points I make about the relationships between communication dynamics and the potential for emergent cooperation are more clearly and tightly argued here than in the published version. These arguments have also been presented at conferences and in my PhD dissertation.
Abstract:
The paper presents a field study aiming to examine the generation of common problem definitions, frames of interpretation and knowledge structure in teaching contexts involving groups of Roma children. A smaller part of this study has involved joint problem definition and planning in groups of adults with different socio-cultural backgrounds. In both kinds of settings, participants are likely to start with diverging strategies and axioms used in articulating knowledge. The study is informed by considerations of common ground, private experience and public representations, and its focus is on the communicative context, the role that verbal and non-verbal expressions, interpersonal strategies play in jointly framing a problem: how these two dimensions of communication complement or interfere with each other to serve the purposes of local and long term coordination. In the preliminary theoretical considerations governing the study, I aimed to develop a perspective that enables the study of both types of situations. The present paper discusses the teaching contexts in detail.
Thesis Chapters by Rita Keri
My doctoral research aimed to explore the communicative dynamics of joint problem solving in situ... more My doctoral research aimed to explore the communicative dynamics of joint problem solving in situations characterised by some degree of uncertainty: interpersonal situations where the general frames of cooperation or the boundaries of the cooperating group are poorly or loosely defined.
While social theories give us valuable insight about the nature of the forces and dynamics that drive the selection for and sustenance of social structures and institutions, and acknowledge their constructed nature, explanations are largely restricted to established, stabilised forms, and different disciplines tend to lose sight of the processes that drive construction itself while focusing on sustenance. In addition to this observation, my study was motivated by the assumption that the perspective that I took could yield new insights about the nature of social change, conflict and conflict resolution, as well as the conception of human agents and the nature of their social motivations.
Acknowledgement: I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable critique, remar... more Acknowledgement: I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable critique, remarks, and suggestions, which were a great help in drawing up the present form of the paper. I am also grateful to the schools and the artist Katalin Soós for enabling and supporting my observations.
unpublished draft, 2011
I am making this draft version of the paper available here because some important theoretical poi... more I am making this draft version of the paper available here because some important theoretical points I make about the relationships between communication dynamics and the potential for emergent cooperation are more clearly and tightly argued here than in the published version. These arguments have also been presented at conferences and in my PhD dissertation.
Abstract:
The paper presents a field study aiming to examine the generation of common problem definitions, frames of interpretation and knowledge structure in teaching contexts involving groups of Roma children. A smaller part of this study has involved joint problem definition and planning in groups of adults with different socio-cultural backgrounds. In both kinds of settings, participants are likely to start with diverging strategies and axioms used in articulating knowledge. The study is informed by considerations of common ground, private experience and public representations, and its focus is on the communicative context, the role that verbal and non-verbal expressions, interpersonal strategies play in jointly framing a problem: how these two dimensions of communication complement or interfere with each other to serve the purposes of local and long term coordination. In the preliminary theoretical considerations governing the study, I aimed to develop a perspective that enables the study of both types of situations. The present paper discusses the teaching contexts in detail.
My doctoral research aimed to explore the communicative dynamics of joint problem solving in situ... more My doctoral research aimed to explore the communicative dynamics of joint problem solving in situations characterised by some degree of uncertainty: interpersonal situations where the general frames of cooperation or the boundaries of the cooperating group are poorly or loosely defined.
While social theories give us valuable insight about the nature of the forces and dynamics that drive the selection for and sustenance of social structures and institutions, and acknowledge their constructed nature, explanations are largely restricted to established, stabilised forms, and different disciplines tend to lose sight of the processes that drive construction itself while focusing on sustenance. In addition to this observation, my study was motivated by the assumption that the perspective that I took could yield new insights about the nature of social change, conflict and conflict resolution, as well as the conception of human agents and the nature of their social motivations.