Wolff-Michael Roth
  Lansdowne Professor, Applied Cognitive Science

 

 

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co/editor of

.Mind, Culture, & Activity
.Cultural Studies of Science Education
.FQS: Forum Qualitative Social Research

2 book series: .SENSE: science & math
.SENSE: culture & history

contact address

 

Wolff-Michael Roth
MacLaurin Building A548
Victoria, BC
V8W 3N4
mroth@uvic.ca

 

favorite sites

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  .Jay Lemke
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  .Damien Vervust, artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

my brother's pass time
La Palma

grad student supervision
update: NOV-23-08


My responsibility as university faculty member includes working with graduate students to allow them to become part of a community of scholars. Of course, working with others is nearly impossible if the graduate students' research is outside the domain of the supervisor. Graduate students who join my team work on problems and research topics closely aligned with the laboratory's topics, to a great part determined by the grants that fund our research.

To agree to supervising someone, the potential graduate student has to commit to write, under my close guidance, a series of publishable articles. In the past, MA students wrote about 3 articles (which they also present at national and international conferences whereas doctoral students generally write 5-6 research articles for publication. In some form, these articles constitute the body of their thesis, and are complemented by introduction, theory, method, and conclusion/implication chapters that the student writes on his/her own.

My current preference will be to work with students in an interdisciplinary program run by the Faculty of Graduate Studies, which allows the student to develop competencies across departments. There will have to be two supervisors, one from each of the two main departments.

 

 .Here you find a description of my research team, past and present, and some of the projects they are (have been) working on and the publications that issued from them.

 

Some of the topics that have been researched

  1. Levels of competence in scientific representation (e.g., graphing, using averages) from elementary to high school levels.   Paper-and-pencil testing and video taping of pairs of students as they work on selected tasks.
  2. Learning from laboratory activities.   For example, how is it possible that students engage in hands-on activities and learn something that we usually ascribe to mental qualities?
  3. Learning in communities.   What are the mechanisms by means of which individuals learn within communities? How does what one person knows come to be shared by another? What are the processes by means of which individual situated cognition is coordinated to bring about what might be referred to as social cognition?
  4. Developing competence in ecology.   What are the mechanisms by means of which individuals become competent in ecological issues? This competence could be that of an ecologist, a First Nations person and his/her traditional ecological knowledge, or that of an environmental activists. How is the competence a function of the culture in which individuals participate?
  5. Examination of teaching through the eyes of the teacher.   That is, what is it that makes praxis so different from considering teaching theoretically?

update: SEP-02-09

talks, workshops, & new articles

EARLI 09
- Indeterminate evolutionary change of language

HPP Bulletin
- Psychology from 1st principles

making trouble
(((the most oppressive hegemony comes from where you least expect it: your friends)))

new pieces
- Solidarity
- What more?
- More reflexivity
- «Mosh»
- Science hegemony
older pieces
- Identity & Community
- Mêlée & literacy
- Radical passivity
- On responsibility . . .
- On editing . . .
- Ethics as social practice
- Political ethics, unethical politics
- Vagaries and politics of funding 1
- Vagaries and politics of funding 2
- Editorial power/authorial suffering


Martin Heidegger


Jacques Derrida


Jean-Luc Nancy


Hélène Cixous


Che Guevara


Benazir Butto

preprints

Science studies
- Struggle over water 2
- Struggle over water 1
- Science and the good citizen
Scientific literacy
- Allgemeinbildung: Readiness for living in risk society
- Citizenship and science education
Gesture studies
- Gestures: The leading edge of literacy...
Workplace math
- The meaning of meaning...
- The emergence of graphing...