Re: [xmca] back to the Zoped - sorry

From: deborah downing-wilson <ddowningw who-is-at gmail.com>
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 06:56:57 PDT

Thanks!

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:

> Deborah, the professor-student relationship is one of possibly many zpds
> that beginning teachers are involved with, and they aren't all leading to
> the same destination. Typically the university values some variety of
> progressive education, yet the schools are pulling them toward something
> else, a trajectory that fits with the generally conservative values of
> schools. I've written a bit about this and will attach one paper of
> possible
> interest. p
>
> Peter Smagorinsky
> The University of Georgia
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> Athens, GA 30602
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> Behalf Of deborah downing-wilson
> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 6:11 PM
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> Subject: [xmca] back to the Zoped - sorry
>
> I'm looking back over XMCA Zoped discussions from years past trying to
> clarify my understanding of the way CHAT conceives of the development of
> the
> more capable member of the triad.
>
> I'm looking at undergraduate students in practicum learning programs and
> would like to think in terms of embedded, or cascading, or interactive
> zopeds.
>
> Maybe it's enough just to situate them in different positions in two
> concurrent zopeds? at once the novice to the professor's expertise and the
> expert to the novice child? But the professor isn't always present at the
> time of the undergrad/child interaction - unfortunately not even in mind at
> times - and yet the undergrad surely continues to develop. How might we
> think about this?
>
> While it seems to be widely accepted that teaching is an effective method
> of
> deepening one's understanding of a topic, there doesn't seem to be a lot
> written about this. Or maybe I'm not looking in the right places.
>
> --
> Deborah Downing Wilson
> Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
> University of California San Diego
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