Program October 19th Intro Re-Membering Recapitulation of some points and approaches (MN) Discussion Coffee Break Introduction to synopsis Presentation & discussion of preliminary synopsis ideas Looking ahead Planning of next session(s)

Re-Membering Mingle and talk: What impressed you last week? What do you expect this week? Write on blackboard

Community psy – 3 aspects 1. Critical / progressivist movement Overcoming individualism Empowerment Resources, social support Critical invocation of everyday life 2. Theorizing an entity in / of social life What is a community? What is ”participation”? 3. Discursive / practical element How are ”communities” recruited, aligned? What are the effects of ”community”?

Texts in practice Texts are tools that are used to designate classify regulate define…etc. Texts are also objectifications - materialized cultural forms - that subjectify: Texts construct: render, perform, produce Self is mediated (I am an alcoholic; we are professionals) Texts constitute communities and participants Texts reciprocate (convergence of map and landscape)

Cultural forms Reciprocation Imagination Reciprocation Participant Community Cultural forms

Case: The cultural form of the evaluation Evaluations regulate define standards, the ”sufficiently good teaching” lead to certain modifications of class activities tool to circumvent staff loyalty and teacher autonomy (visibility, comparability, control) Evaluations objectify anonymous paper form and program committee quantification as externalizing and symbolic Evaluations subjectify: we are liberal subjects – users, life-long learners? we are responsible democratic participants? we have surrendered autonomy of expertise and of ”exit”

Case: The cultural form of the evaluation Evaluations constitute community we belong to Dept of Psy, Univ of Cph teaching isn’t what the teacher does – it is part of a professional organization this university is committed to quality improvement (contract with gov.) this department is committed to  a dialogical approach to evaluation  democratic influence directly in core this class puts everything in quotations marks…

Synopsis Times Written synopsis: Dec 16 th, 1 pm Oral exam: Week 3 Requirements: 6 p written synopsis (+/- 2), 800 p references sanctioned by teacher 30 minutes oral exam, first 10 minutes presentation, then debate Oral part counts twice Supervision: 3 hours

Synopsis Some advice: densely written, but readable synopsis use case think of curriculum as resources write open questions in synopsis prepare precise manuscript for oral introduction use power point / overheads / handouts

U.J.Jensen Philosophy just-in-time (cf list of add. refs.) Prototypes, standards Ideal concepts and concepts in practice Immanence of discourse: Intervention Method: Second-level objectification Three aspects: Disease-oriented: Which disease, which specific standard? Situation-oriented: Ill or not? The person as his own standard. Social work Community-oriented: Distribution, conditions, politics

Three moments of the prototype A. The prototypical practice Designated, delimited, ”nominated” B. The model Artifacts, ”inscription devices”, genres C. The general relevance A differentiated, volatile, contentuous relationship, in a flow of time, rather than a simple, neutral and instantaneous relationship of identity (or "reflection") Model of and model for

AGENT MEANS ENDS OBJECT THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF INTERVENTION

MEANS ENDS AGENT THE LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF META-INTERVENTION (~method) OBJECT MEANS ENDS AGENT