horizontal develop
Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 28 Sep 1996 16:23:20 -0700 (PDT)
Something about the exchanges over Yrjo's paper put me in mind of the
following citation from Vygotsky which I had just inserted into the
paper on development and context that I gave a geneva. It sounds almost
as if it is quoting Yrjo and Ana on horizontal development, albeit it
also claims that horizontal development is part of the same process as
vertical development (or at least that is how I interpret it).
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The levels of generalization in a [a child's use of words]
correspond strictly to the levels in the level of social
interaction. Any new level in the child's generalization
signifies a new level in the possibility for social interaction
(Vygotsky, 1956, p. 423. Cited in Wertsch, 1983, p. 26).