RE: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

[Achilles Delari Junior <achilles_delari@hotmail.com>]

Robert, I don't know if the following can be considered exactly a methaphor, but I will post, if it will not be interesting, please you must not consider... Its about art as the miracle of transformation of water in wine:

"If the only purpose of a tragic poem were to infect us with the author’s sorrow, this would be a very sad situation indeed for art. The miracle of art reminds us much more of another miracle in the Gospel, the transformation of water into wine. Indeed, art’s true nature is that of transubstantiation, something that transcends ordinary feelings; for the fear, pain, or excitement caused by art includes something above and beyond its normal, conventional content. This “something” overcomes feelings of fear and pain, changes water into wine, and thus fulfills the most important purpose of art. One of the great thinkers said once that art relates to life as wine relates to the grape. With this he meant to say that art takes its material from life, but gives in return something which its material did not contain." (Psychology of Art, Chapter 11 - in MIA version - http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1925/art11.htm )


I remember other, but I had read most of them first in Spanish and/or Portuguese... For instance, If somebody here have the English version of the preface of Vygotsky of the Thorndike's book, there you will find at least two important educational methaphor... If we completely agree with their meanings or not...

1) The teacher as the conductor of a chariot not as the horse that is its motive force (power...)

2) The pupil is not an empty glass that the teacher will fulfill with the wine or the water of his lessons.


Both are paraphrases of mine, but they are there, for sure...


Best.


Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:30:10 -0400
From: boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

Lovely and such a rich metaphor indeed!
Thanks Achilles !
 
Robert Lake  Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Social Foundations of Education 
Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Georgia Southern University
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Phone: (912) 478-5125
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 Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.
-John Dewey.
 
 
>>> Delari Junior <achilles_delari@hotmail.com> 10/7/2010 4:27 PM >>>
 
"What has occurred in in contemporary psychology of emotions might best be expressed by the hopeless cry of one of the heroes of a Chekhov drama, a senile old man left in an abandoned house in which the windows are being boarded up: 'Man they killed'" (The teaching about emotions, p. 198)
Achilles.
 
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 16:15:49 -0400
From: boblake@georgiasouthern.edu 
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu 
Subject: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor
 
Hi Everyone,
I am gathering the use of metaphors in Vygotsky's work for a publication and want to be sure to include as many as possible. 
without any knowledge of Russian along with the fact that I have
only recently begun a serious investigation of his work.
 
In her essay on Vygotsky on Thinking and Speaking in the Cambridge companion to Vygotsky,(2007) Vera John-Steiner cites some of Vygotsky's most famous examples, i.e. inner speech as "speech turning inward"; thought as a "cloud shedding a shower of words"; "consciousness is reflected in a word in a word as the sun in a drop of water". (p.151).
 
Yes I know "tool" is a controversial example to some people :-).
 
Can you folks think of any others ? 
 
Thank-you in advance for any help with this.
Robert Lake
 
 
 
 
 
 
Robert Lake  Ed.D.
Assistant Professor
Social Foundations of Education 
Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8144
Phone: (912) 478-5125
Fax: (912) 478-5382
Statesboro, GA  30460
 
 
Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its midwife.
-John Dewey.
 
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