A Cultural-Historical Theoretical Contribution to Understanding Public Scholarship

• In Event: Roundtable Session 1
  In Roundtable Session: Designing Cultural Historical Research: Audience, Purpose, and Method

Abstract

This theoretical paper offers a contemporary analysis of classic cultural-historical concepts to enhance and illuminate the role of education researchers as public scholars. It creates a vision of public scholarship as a role-play of social relationships, a collective activity that both reflects on and creates culture and history. All stakeholders should embrace their roles in public scholarship holistically and meaningfully, learning from each other and at the same time creating meaning of this learning. Our point of development within western phylogenesis can support public scholarship when constructed as a revolutionary postmodern era that de-values abstract knowing and prioritizes collective synthesis. Engaging and holistic nature of genetically similar children’s role-play can help discover and create motivational powers for public scholarship.

Author

• Natalia Collings, Central Michigan University