In a message dated 8/8/2001 7:57:33 PM Central Daylight Time,
mcole@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
> A zoped is a full dramatic performance. backstage, directors, plays,
> audience,
> critics, the works. There is probably a script somewhere in the mix, but
> no play has ever been produced that exactly follows "the script" and given
> the "inescapable tension between mediational means and action" ( a la
> wertsch)
> there never will be.
>
> Zopeds, like all joint, mediated, human activities are open systems. To
> suggest
> that they are or could be scripted, in the sense of be exactly prespecified
> and fulfilled, is an idea whose time should never come.
> mike
>
>
Mike,
Quite possibly the reason there are administrators who dictate a specific
curriculum, complete with lines for the actors is because the field of
psychology has yet to delineate the difference Vygotsky termed scientific
versus spontaneous thought. In their zealousness to teach scientific inquiry
some educators believe one path will be most effective for the greatest
percentage of students and therefore that is the path the mediator should
take. Unfortunately this path disregards the spontaneous nature of effective
learning environments. Any other ideas?
eric
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