Re: [xmca] William Frawley's "Vygotsky and Cognitive Science"

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Thanks a lot, PTL. This is a great discussion to have. And if David K can
start a rumpus with this wild thing, so much the better.

One concern I have is that the average participant in XMCA will come to this
topic
out of time and with limited background (me for example!). So I looked up a
review that summarizes the contents of the book for the non-cogniseti (sp
from one of THOSE too!), that summarized chapter by chapter. Summarizes are
rarely
"objectively true" of course, and this summary is from the computational
side, but it might help those who have no idea how to get into the topics to
do so. The plato-wittgenstein polarity will perhaps help, perhaps not.

Rumpus it up, David.
mike
url of review:  http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/J/J98/J98-3010.pdf



On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 12:38 PM, <p.lamplugh@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

>  Dear XMCA community as a whole,
>                                  I must ask as to whether or not, as a
> first post in this community, if anybody
> is able to provide any reasonable
> back-reading to Frawley's work so
> mentioned in the title? It would also be
> of great pertinence to understand the
> premises on which he mounts a critique
> and advancement into this particular
> realm. I've only flicked through this
> work tentatively, which I hope will be
> proved as my most frivolous waste of
> time of the pat 2 years.   Opinions,
> criticisms, appraisals, anything, these
> are what i'm after, i'm thirsty for any
> new information. The point to me is the
> application of Vygotsky's proximal
> zones, how these could be extended with
> any rate of success through any means,
> to educational praxis within any
> cultural environment. I am also not
> asking for anybody to read the
> aforementioned book on my behalf, but I
> would like to hear some creative output
> from those whor contribute here,
> especially on what to look out for in
> this work.
>    Thanks thricefold,
>                     P.T.L.
>
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