Re: [xmca] leading activity related question

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Sounds right, Huw.
structure/system....... Gotta read that book  behind me by that title by
Wilden. I keep reading IN in it, coming away interested and perplexed, and
returning from time to time. Guess its time
to look again.

I need to go back and read the 1984 paper to see why structure is there
instead of system. But I believe in part, in so far as it is
consistently true, it is because we were really working at creating
activity "structures" with a kind of morphologically structured, particular
kind, of system. One, for example, that would allow
us to glimpse kids' special areas of strength and weakness in seeking to
read for meaning (or whatever we were working on)
that could provide a medium for change in a manner we could
trace.

mike
mike

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 February 2013 21:54, 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.
> >
> >
>  One explanation, perhaps, for the confusion of zopeds, is the
> usage: creating a zoped vs the zoped (of the individual).  Even for those
> using it to index developmental age etc, it is serving double duty.  The
> same seems to apply for leading activity.
>
> Huw
>
>
> > 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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