Re: cognitive apprenticeship

vera p john-steiner (vygotsky who-is-at unm.edu)
Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:17:27 -0700 (MST)

Dear Kevin,
The emphasis on the "cognitive" emerges from Brown's work who was
particularly interested in transfering issues identified in cog-
nitive science o the school situation. But isolating content mastery bt
appreniceship, like math, from interpersonal relations, mutual interest in
working togethe, novice agency, mutilates the concept of apprenticeship
from its power. Thus, the difference between work like Lave's and that of
the cognitivists.
Collaboration across generations is my next chapter, but in the meantime
you may look at the apprenticeship chapter in my Notebooks of the Mind. It
is a little outdated, but does raise some of these issues,
Vera

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