Not to put words into anyone's mouth but it seems to me that a contextualist
is one that holds context (the here and now/the local) as the primary
beginning and ending point of all analysis and speculation on phenomena.
Chris
-----Original Message-----
From: Eva Ekeblad [mailto:eva.ekeblad@ped.gu.se]
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 2:00 PM
To: xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: Re: what silence?
At 11.49 -0800 99-03-18, Mike Cole wrote:
>Why is it that in a variety of textbooks, Vygotsky is referred to as a
>contextualist?
Mike, I know what context is
but what is a contextualIST?
Eva