Would you please send me the xmca's home page adrress? And how can I get
your "Cultural Context of learning and thinking" , "Mind as a Cultural
Achievement: Implications for IQ Testing" and "The influence of
Schooling on Concept Formation: Some Preliminary Conclusions"?
ike Cole wrote:
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> Edouard--
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> You wrote:
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> As I've argued here and elsewhere, Lave and Wenger made a drastic step
> away from any conception of activity theory. They do this by not simply
> burring the line between knowledge and environment, the burr the line
> between subject/object. Knowledge stops being a phenomenologial
> primitive. Instead it is purely the creation of a particular sort of
> practice (intellectual practice.) Without knowledge, transfer becomes a
> mute point.
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> These comments perplex me.
> Are there people pushing activity theory on this list who
> do not blur the line between knowledge and environnment? Between
> subject and object? Knowledge is created in practices (which
> you divide into intellectual and non-intellectual) you say. But
> then you say, Without knowledge, transfer becomes a moot point.
>
> Redefining what counts as knowledge and the processes of its
> embodiment/origins/etc is now the same as saying that there
> is no such thing as knowledge so transfer becomes a moot point,
> is it?
>
> Confused in southern california
> mike
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