Re: vygotsky and contextualism

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at ibm.net)
Sat, 20 Mar 1999 13:05:16 -0300

Ilda,

I sent you several e-mails to your e-mail private address.
All them returned to me.

Ilda Carreiro King wrote:
>
> HI Ken,
> This sounds really odd? Can you elaborate on the use of context in this
> law? Is this your interpretation of other words or do they actually use
> context in this way?
> Ilda Carreiro King
>
> Ken Goodman wrote:
>
> > Just for the record there are people who are against context, California
> > bill 1086 requires those who do staff development on reading with
> > teachers to sign an oath saying they will not teachers to teach kids to
> > use context in reading.
> > The new language arts framework also says pupils must first learn to
> > read words out of context.
> > Ken Goodman
> > --
> > Kenneth S. Goodman, Professor, Language, Reading & Culture
> > 504 College of Education, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
> > fax 520 7456895 phone 520 6217868
> >
> > These are mean times- and in the mean time
> > We need to Learn to Live Under Water