another side of LSV and Context

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:35:19 -0800 (PST)

A leading developmental text, which assume LSV is a contextualist, a text I
admire, contains the following statement that I believe derives from both
a link to the idea of Vygotsky as a contextualist and to a particular notion
of contextualism associated with embedded constraints.

"Vygotsky's focus on social transmission of knowledge meant that he place less
emphasis than other theorists (read, piaget, mc) on children's capacity to shape
their own development. Modern followers of Vygotsky grant the individual and
society more balanced roles (Rogoff, Wertsch and Tulviste).

Vygotsky, like Bakhtin, declared that "in the beginning is the act."

Is there a pattern here?
mike