[Xmca-l] Re: Sad news-- Jerry Bruner has died

[JAG]

THANK YOU!!!!!!

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 7:21 PM, Annalisa Aguilar <annalisa@unm.edu> wrote:

> Hello!
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> I was wondering if it might be OK for recent discussion on this thread to
> be retitled so that Jerry Bruner might at least be free to wander to his
> intended destination, if there is one?
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> Perhaps anything of note of his work could be posted here, but
> offshoot-topics (which are most welcomed!) could be spun off to a new
> thread title?
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> I was under the impression that honoring his contribution had been
> happening, but it seems things have gotten a little debate-y?
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> What do you think?
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> I myself would like to know the story how Bruner came to meet Luria. Would
> anyone like to recount that?
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> My contribution to the discussion about scaffolding:
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> It occurred to me yesterday that not only is scaffolding a metaphor, but
> also a metaphor is scaffolding: once the metaphor is used and the concept
> it is intended to illustrate takes hold, that the underlying structure
> becomes conceptually autonomous and the metaphor falls away leaving the
> meaning to stand on its own.
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> Kind regards,
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> Annalisa
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