> Dear Ana, you captured quite well what I meant by the horizontal dimension
> of development. You wrote:
>
> "...it is not just a cognitive dissonance that drives the construction of
> meaning and developemnt, and it is not just appropriation of the cognitive
> tools, it is also a drama of conflicting social realtionships."
>
> I agree. Only instead of 'social relationships' I would emphasize different
> and conflicting 'social contexts' or 'social worlds', which in themselves
> include different instru-mentalities.
Yrjo,
This new form, "instru-mentalities", is certainly eye-catching and
provocative. What exactly do you intend by it?
Gordon Wells, gwells who-is-at oise.utoronto.ca
OISE/University of Toronto.