Re: double stimulation?
Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
25 Jul 1999 11:51:55 -0000
If Nate's memory serves & U.S. kids' understandings were more "everyday" in
their formation while the Russians' concepts more "scientific" & "rigid" --
that suggests that flexibility is a function of pre-scientific (in V's
terms) concepts -- i.e., understandings that are more embedded in one's
"own" sense-making are more available for use in more different settings and
ways. Does that jibe with others' understanding of "flexibility" ? (I think
it challenges the cognitive psychologists' view, no? - i.e., where
"flexibility" is described in terms of functioning _within_ a given
conceptual system/ theory)
Judy