Bill and All,
This sounds like a great idea. Just to muddy the already muddied
waters, I would add the quite short article by Wood, Bruner and Ross,
The Role of Tutoring in Problem Solving, which introduced that other
thorny metaphor, scaffolding (30 years ago). I guess we can talk about
logistics after everyone has finished their egg nogging. I have some
data collected from second language classrooms where I have been
looking at ways that students (adults) support each other in language
learning activity. It was transcribed by a novice (me) but it might be
useful.
Phil
On Dec 21, 2003, at 12:46 AM, Mike Cole wrote:
>
>
> Bill Blanton asked me to post this to xmca for him. The grinch, he
> complains
> is at work. I know what he means. I tried to post from my web-access
> version
> of email two papers that speak to Phil's questions, but they evidently
> did not go through.
> mike.
>
>
>> From blantonw@miami.edu Sat Dec 20 09:40:07 2003
>
> Phil and Mike
>
> I have tried for sometime to get my mind wrapped around the notion of
> ZPD. I think that what makes the concept difficult to understand and
> apply
> is that there is a great deal of writing on what it potential means and
> very little inquiry on its application, along with data.
>
> On a recent trip to a 5thD meeting at Lisbon, I took along Blumer's
> Symbolic Interactionism. As I read the chapter, "Attitudes and the
> Social
> Act," a splendid treatment of a scientific concept, I began rethinking
> my
> understanding of zpd. It might be very useful to read this chapter
> and
> and perhaps one or two more that deal with the idea of a scientific
> concept. Then read a set of text on the zpd, followed by a discussion
> of
> data that someone might be able make available. We could also get
> into how
> to account for interactions through the zpd and obtain measurement of
> the
> concept.
>
> Here is the set of text that I was thinking about
>
> Blumer', Symbolic interactionism
> Whole text. Newman, Griffin, & Cole, The construction zone: Working for
> cognitive change in school.
> Chapter in Tharp, & Gallimore, Rousing minds to life: Teaching,
> learning,
> and schooling in social context
> Wells' chapter in Wells, Dialogic inquiry: Towards a sociocultural
> practice
> and theory of education
> Whole text. Rogoff & Wertsch Children's learning in the "zone of
> proximal
> development
> Cole chapter in Moll, Vygotsky and educations
> Chaiklin's chapter in Kozulin, Gindis, Ageyev & Miller, Vgotsky's
> educational theory in cultural context
>
> We might need to cut down the scope of this task. This might be a nice
> way
> to open a discussion at the beginning of the next academic session.
>
> Bill Blanton
>
>
>
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