fossilzing?
psmagorinsky who-is-at uoknor.edu
Mon, 5 Feb 96 06:29:30 -0600
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>Vera,JoBeth, LeAnn, and all anti-fossilists!
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>It was Vygotsky who wrote that he wanted to pursue Marx's method and
>not rely on citations.
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>So its safe to say he would not want people treating him the way
>many Soviet scholars treated Marx!
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>Could you-all give a few examples of people who fossilize Vygotsky so
>we could have a better idea of what you have in mind as the wrong way
>to proceed?
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>My own view is that we Americans are not much in danger of fossilizing
>Vygotsky because we know his ideas so poorly and appropriate them
>so partially and eclectically outside of their historical context. (I'll
>speak for myself on this, but I think it is not my "shortcoming" alone).
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>When I read the work, say, of Wertsch or Rogoff or Wells or many many
>articles to be found in the pages of Soviet Psychology or Journal of
>Russian and East European Psychology, (Zinchenko's work comes immediately
>to mind here) I see no danger at all of fossilizing.
>
>How might we improve the dialogue(S) here on xmca from the perspective
>of creative use of the past?
>mike
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>
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