Re: fossilzing?

psmagorinsky who-is-at uoknor.edu
Mon, 5 Feb 96 06:30:33 -0600

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>Hi Mike,
>I am afraid my cryptic message about changing my title for my
>presentation at Chicago may have been misunderstood. I was
>and am exploring ideas about novelty and creativity from
>a Vygotskian framework. That is what I meant to say. I find
>that reading Vygotsky and so much of the recent truly innovative
>work (including Wertsch, Rogoff, Cole, Engestrom, etc. ) is
>generative--far from fossilized. The issue I am hoping to address
>is a response to some critics (for instance, Cobb and Yackel), who
>see Vygotskian approaches as focusing on transmission rather than
>transformation. Again, I am sorry for the misunderstanding, my
>objective is highlighting some aspects of Vygotsdy's ideas which
>are close to my interests in creativity,
>Vera
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>Vera P. John-Steiner
>Department of Linguistics
>Humanities Bldg. 526
>University of New Mexico
>Albuquerque, NM 87131
>(505) 277-6353 or 277-4324
>Internet: vygotsky who-is-at triton.unm.edu
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Peter Smagorinsky
University of Oklahoma
College of Education
Department of Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum
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