Currently I am researching people's ideas regarding Vygotsky's zpd (the
article I cited previously was Wertsch and not Welsch) and the conversation
of eclectic theoretical constructs fits nicely with the varied
interpretations there are regarding this very important. In particular I
think it is the desparity between the two brief glimpes he gives of his
thoughts regarding zpd. Thes two definitions appear in Mind and Society and
one constructs zpd as a cognitive structure to be measure individually and
the second is more of a social construct. I beleive Vygotsky wanted unity
between those two definitions but unfortunately researchers have distorted
both definitions so that they are don't correlate within the same theoretical
framework. One speaks to social activity and the other to cognitive-behavior
type methodology.
Eric
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