Nate
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From: <vadebonc who-is-at montana.edu>
To: <xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 11, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: Development and learning
> Hi Nate -
>
> Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your ending quotes.
> Your most recent one touches on my interest in Vygotsky's recognition of
> the ways in which social dominance influences knowledge construction.
Very
> cool. Is that in Educational Psychology?
>
> Thanks, Jennifer
>
>
>
>
> >In looking more closely at the "development and learning" section, and
in
> >particular the answering of the question what develops (activity), I am
> >left thinking what it means. I read an article on a major list serv
> >service awhile back that made an argument similar to Barry Kort's, in
that,
> >it argued for a strict stage like "development" of list serv's. The
> >question that continues to be in the back of my mind with a
> >systems-activity approach is, are we just subsituting a rationalistic
model
> >of the child-individual with a activity-systems one.
> >
> >I read with great interest to Eva's references to Bill's work, yet was
left
> >wondering how such models will affect the way we see activity, list
servs
> >etc. So, a question I come away with is, what does it mean to say
activity
> >develops and what role can models play? This is coming from a
suspicious
> >concern as well a willingness to be enlightened.
> >
> >Nate
> >
> >Nate Schmolze
> >http://www.geocities.com/~nschmolze/
> >schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu
> >
> >"Pedogogics is never and was never politically indifferent,
> >since, willingly or unwillingly, through its own work on the psyche,
> >it has always adopted a particular social pattern, political line,
> >in accordance with the dominant social class that has guided its
> >interests".
> >
> > L.S. Vygotsky
>
>
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> Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction
> Montana State University
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