These are the slides presented at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting 2007 by Reed Stevens at the Learning Sciences SIG meeting. Uploaded by permission.

2. “ Find yourself” intellectually/dispositionally and find that possible self somewhere in the field. For me that meant research traditions that emphasized complexity over simplicity, embodied and interactional experiences over mentalism, processes over stable states Get very good at something you like doing, because you’ll do a lot of it. For me that was fieldwork and micro-ethnography using video. Develop a practice of connoisseurship about works in your field (as you define it). Reread these often to have something to aspire to. Latour, Goodwin, Becker…