Re: threads
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 24 Jan 1996 17:52:59 -0800 (PST)
Hello Peter-- Nice to learn of a list I probably ought to be on-- or one
that ought to merge with xmca. As you know, I am one of those odd people
who think that Vygotsky-Luria, and Leontiev really did constitute a
troika, at least enough so that in succeeding generations, people like me
would be seduced into thinking that their ideas were mutually complementary
(and of course, incomplete).
I have written some in various places about prolepsis. People might also
find interesting the Griffin and Cole article in Rogoff and Wertsch's
book on the zone of proximal development (1984 I think) where we discuss
the shortcomings of the scaffolding metaphor.
There is this about prolepsis for those who think of it as being
benign: it can easily be interpreted as the abstraction embodied in
the phrase, "the dead hand of the past."
mike cole