owning the zoped (was words as commodity/client)

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2001 - 20:08:55 PDT


xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
>Consider for a moment whether you are trying to get your student to 'buy'
>what you are teaching. Now, don't look at this example as marketplace
>but
>view it in the context of assisting the client in attaining their zoped

...wait a moment - i thought a zone-of-proximal-development was a
co-orchestraed space of learning - here you assign ownership, the clien
"attains" "their" zoped..." ... ? i'm confused. isn't the zone an emergent
activity between learners?
diane

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I do not know. Hence I keep my phrases hung like clothes in a cupboard,
waiting for someone to wear them. Thus waiting, thus speculating, making
this note and then another, I do not cling to life."
Virginia Woolf, The Waves, 1931.
                                                                          
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
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