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CREW Video & Audio TapesCREW has the following available, from previous talks and colloquia:
April 28, 1997
Chuck Darrah, Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University
"Always Working: Work, Identity, and Community in the Silicon Valley."
Once the Valley of Heart's Delight, Silicon Valley is now a laboratory in which work, identity, and community are connected in ever more complex ways. Exploring the results of these "experiments" is the goal of the Silicon Valley Cultures Project, a collaborative effort currently being conducted by anthropologists at San Jose State University.
Lucy Suchman, Xerox PARC
"Work-Oriented Design: Learning from Workers and Users."
This talk describes a research program at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center aimed at bringing anthropological studies of everyday work practices to bear on the design of more genuinely useful technologies. The program includes two related lines of research. The first is concerned with developing an approach to the analysis of work practices in specific sites, and to the generalization of findings across sites. The second line of research is aimed at bringing studies of work practice into the process of technology design, through the co-design of prototypes with intended system users. The talk will provide an introduction to our research program, illustrated with materials drawn from past and current projects.
David Stern and Norton Grubb, Directors for the National Center for Research on Vocational Education: "New Directions for NCRVE"
NCRVE has finished its second 5-year program of work, and has now been extended for a year or two. David Stern, director of the eight-site NCRVE consortium, and Norton Grubb, site director for NCRVE at Berkeley, describe some of the new questions with which NCRVE is now grappling. These include: How some high schools using work-based learning as a part of the college-prep curriculum? With what results? What is the relation between academic disciplines and competence at work? How are four-year colleges and universities changing admission procedures to accmodate graduates from high schools that are trying to deliver "education through occupations"? How could pre-service teacher education be designed to prepare teachers for these new kinds of high schools?