Re: Help me to understand...
maria judith (costlins who-is-at ism.com.br)
Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:03:01 -0200
hello Kwang-Su Cho,
I agree with your perplexity. I am working with Piaget's theory and the
social interaction. Piaget said that it is impossible to get out from
the concrete operative period to the logical thinking of the adolescence
if the individual can't interact in the society. I think that there is a
misunderstanding when people say that Piaget't didn't pay attention to
how important the social interaction is. The Genetic Epistemology
explains the logical development of the thinking of subjects who need
the social interaction to get the goal. forgive my bad english, it is
not may first language. thanks, maria judith lins
Kwang-Su Cho wrote:
>
> Hello~ XMCA members
>
> While reading the article "Cognition as a Collaborative
> Process" in Handbook of Child Psychology written by Barbara
> Rogoff(1998), a sentence "meaning is more than a construction by
> individuals" seemed ambiguous to me. Rogoff(1988) argued;
>
> For Piaget, the social process provides individuals the
> opportunity to see alternatives and explore the logical
> consequences of their own positions in a meeting of
> individual minds, as opposed to a shared thinking process.
> To understand how individuals learn and develop through
> participation in the sociocultural world, it is necessary
> to grant that
>
> meaning is more than a construction by individuals.
>
> Piaget's use of the isolated individual as the
> unit of analysis, in my view, makes it impossible to develop
> a sociocultural approach to cognition using his theory as
> the basis;sociocultural aspects of cognition are not merely
> the addition of individul changes in thinking resulting
> from social interaction.(Rogoff, 1998, p. 686)
>
> Though trying to figure out the sentence, I'm not sure my
> understaning. I think Developmental process is a individual's
> meaning-making process through participating sociocultrual activities.
> So, in sociocultural approaches, meaning may exist outside a individule,
> therefore, meaning is given as well as constructed.
>
> Help me to make sense the deep meaning of the sentence...
>
> Sincerely,
> Kwang-Su Cho
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