Re: abstraction

From: Mike Cole (lchcmike@gmail.com)
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 17:39:55 PDT


spielraum --wonerful word, Michael!! I guessed "room to play" and came up
with all of these interesting
alternatives.
mike
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bargaining range -- der
Verhandlungs*spielraum*<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Verhandlungsspielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
circle -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
clearance -- der
Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
*(Technik)*
decision space -- der
Entscheidungs*spielraum*<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Entscheidungsspielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
elbowroom -- der
Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>financial
margin -- der
Finanzierungs*spielraum*<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Finanzierungsspielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
to give<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=give&nocase=on&hits=50>free
play to
something<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=something&nocase=on&hits=50>--
einer Sache freien Spielraum gewähren
to give<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=give&nocase=on&hits=50>someone
line enough -- jemandem freien Spielraum lassen
headroom -- der
Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
*(Technik)*
latitude -- der
Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
leeway -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
margin -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
permissible limits -- der
zulässige<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=zul\ssige&nocase=on&hits=50>Spielraum
*(Technik)*
play -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
to play<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=play&nocase=on&hits=50>--
freien Spielraum haben
range -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
reach -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
room -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
scope -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
swing -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
tether -- der Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
tolerance -- der
Spielraum<http://www.iee.et.tu-dresden.de/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/wernerr/search.sh?string=Spielraum&nocase=on&hits=50>
*(Technik)*
a wide range -- ein weiter Spielraum

  
 On 5/1/05, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> further to my earlier note about our (Western) tendency to celebrate a
> certain form of abstraction--Piaget, too, celebrated this particular
> form.
>
> Hegel asked the rhetorical question, "Who thinks abstractly?" and then,
> after saying in French "Sauve qui peut" answers his question, "Only the
> uneducated." You can find his piece on the net. But essentially,
> Marxist philosophers and psychologists picked up on this and speak of
> ascension from abstract to concrete, from the general knowledge of the
> uneducated to the detailed and particular, contextualized knowledge of
> the specialist.
>
> My sense is that the expert is expert because s/he has many ways for
> concretely realizing the possibilities in the general (genetic
> developmentally, the abstract of the uneducated is always prior to the
> concrete of the expert). Our phenomenologically oriented research
> framed expertise in terms of Spielraum, room to maneuver, which
> increases with experience and familiarity of the subject|object unit
> (e.g., Roth, Lawless, & Masciotra, 2001).
>
> More to this point, a phenomenological analysis of my own mathematical
> experience shows that I mastered the unknown problem as it became
> increasingly concrete and less abstract (Roth, 2001). It would be
> interesting for me to go back and rewrite the piece now from the CHAT
> perspective on concrete and abstract.
>
> I hope others, too, will read this months article and write on this
> interesting issue.
>
> Michael
>
> Roth, W.-M. (2001). Phenomenology and mathematical experience.
> Linguistics & Education, 12(2), 239–252.
> Roth, W.-M., Lawless, D., & Masciotra, D. (2001). Spielraum and
> teaching. Curriculum Inquiry, 31(2), 183–207.
>
>



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