Re: negative ZPDs, pathless learning

diane celia hodges (dchodges who-is-at interchg.ubc.ca)
Wed, 8 Oct 1997 22:18:20 -0700

At 11:54 PM 10/8/97, Jay Lemke wrote:
>It is certainly interesting to open up alternative variations and paradoxes
>around the basic ZPD model, however we understand it.

Uh, I'll take ZPD's for $100.00 Jay:

>The Other does not have to be more-knowledgeable, we can learn from
>infants, dogs, and hot radiators ... but are we learning in the same sense,
>in the same way, as with the more-knowledgeable partner? and what is the
>nature of this knowledge? suppose it is not consciously held, but tacit
>knowledge: someone can show us what they do, but not tell us how they do it
>... we can still learn from tacit knowers, but somewhat differently, and
>they still seem to me to fit the ZPD model -- but learning from infants,
>dogs, and hot radiators does not fit the model at all. What do you think?
>

What is agency?
diane

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