Re: [xmca] leading activity related question

[Larry Purss <lpscholar2@gmail.com>]

Mike, as I read the 1984 article you wrote with Peg exploring the temporal
and the spatial dimensions interweaving, a question slowly formed that may
be interesting to others. It has to do with the *family resemblance* but
also contrasts of the notions of *structure* and *system*
How do others understand the shifts or *transfers* of meaning between these
metaphors which share a family resemblance.
[forestructure, foreground, foresystem]
[backstructure, background, backsystem]

These contrasting metaphors as images or *pictures* become sedimented
through continued use in developing genres WITHIN historical social
processes.  This question came *to mind* as I read the 1984 article. The
prefixes *fore* and *back* which imply *spatial* positioning are indexing
*temporal* relations.
This *transfer* of understanding within the temporal and spatial I find
intriguing.

Larry

Larry

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:52 PM, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm, Bill. I need to go back and re-read the papers to see if our use of
> structure rather than system is anything more than loose talk. I will also
> cc Jay to alert him to the question.
>
> There are A LOT of entries at xmca under "leading activity." Here is an
> example where making more systematic use of what has been gathered earlier
> in systematic fashion would be useful. (working on it...).
>
> mike
>
> On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Barowy, William <barowy@lesley.edu> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the paper, Mike.  You made the point that educators conflated
> > zopeds with scaffolding back then in 1984 and I still see that happening
> > today.
> >
> > But more importantly, you use the phrase "activity structures" rather
> than
> > "activity systems" in the section on work activity.  I know how YE
> defines
> > the latter an your use of "structures" indicates a difference, perhaps
> like
> > how Lemke defined activity structures in his early work -- would you
> > comment on your view of the contrast between structures and systems?
> >
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