xmca@weber.ucsd.edu writes:
Eric wrote:
>
>
>It is my understanding that a large portion of the problem
>constructionist's
>have with behaviorist theory is that it treats student's behavior as a
>commodity.
i've never read or heard this point before - though i've understood
behaviorism as a failed epistemology ever since Chomsky, Bateson, Vygotsky
etc. - in fact, it seems to me that many constructivists have merely
employed constructivist vocabulary and continued behaviorist activities.
phillip
* * * * * * * *
* *
The English noun "identity" comes, ultimately, from the
Latin adverb "identidem", which means "repeatedly."
The Latin has exactly the same rhythm as the English,
buh-BUM-buh-BUM - a simple iamb, repeated; and
"identidem" is, in fact, nothing more than a
reduplication of the word "idem", "the same":
"idem(et)idem". "Same(and) same". The same,
repeated. It is a word that does exactly what
it means.
from "The Elusive Embrace" by Daniel
Mendelsohn.
phillip white
third grade teacher
doctoral student http://ceo.cudenver.edu/~hacms_lab/index.htm
scrambling a dissertation
denver, colorado
phillip_white@ceo.cudenver.edu
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