ZPD (people/interaction)
Francoise Herrmann (fherrmann who-is-at igc.apc.org)
Sat, 11 Oct 1997 10:21:29 -0700 (PDT)
Hi all, I am so glad that the ZPD discussion is resisting
[snips-ing]! And this morning tend to agree with both Leigh and
Diana (minus the nausea!). With Leigh because to me it is
precisely a unit that deals exclusively with human interaction and
with Diana because what I find missing in it is precisely a
formulation of all the fine points of human interaction. What
people bring into in the interaction, what the mirroring is like,
the gazes, the backgrounds, the feelings etc... and that is why
perhaps Eugene's suggestion that we move from ZPD to the
transformation of participation in sociocultural activity is just
as problematic. In abstraction of all the fine points of
interaction, the same important snips-ing is going on. As for the
death of the concept under too much discussion and reformulation
pressure, I think that it is rather the death of of intellectual
life that is at stake, when one stops to "appropriate" a great
notion. And finally, to contradict, just about everthing
concerning the inclusion of human interaction, I think that
formulation that extends the ZPD to subject
-non-human subject as in reading for example, are quite valid. (
Don't know about radiotors!) but "befriending" the object of
activity in transforamtion of both subject and object rings like
Leonteiv and sounds fine to me. Just another dimension and
plausable interpretation. For a personal story, when I came to
the US to study at SFSU and Stanford (but less so at Stanford as I
had already "enculturated?") I found that this multiple view
points on a concept or theory quite amazing- at least compared to
the French university scene where one learns "from the master" so
to speak. One way, or one trajectory of thinking from A to Z, for
example one teacher's doctoral work and conception.
Voila for now. My new keyboard is actually a used one... it is
clonky and noisy as I am typing.
Francoise Francoise Herrmann fhermann who-is-at igc.apc.org
http://www.wenet.net/~herrmann