Elina and Ana,
Thank you for raising the issue of multiple interpretations of
Vygotsky's "kernel". While I think it is interesting and worthwhile
to try to understand Vygotsky's "intentions" when he formulated this
kernel, I don't think we should restrict ourselves to that
enterprise. In my understanding, a theory is a tool for thinking
with and, like all tools, it is modified over time as it is put to
use in different contexts and for different purposes. In any case,
the world we live in today in our different political, cultural and
linguistic societies is certainly different from that in which
Vygotsky formulated his ideas. So, even if we could be sure we were
correctly interpreting his ideas, we should still have to adapt them
to our current, cultural-personal situations. The most important
issue is to keep the dialogue going, isn't it?
Gordon
-- Gordon Wells UC Santa Cruz. gwells@cats.ucsc.edu http://people.ucsc.edu/~gwells/
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