David:
you wrote,
So I don't agree that it requires a high level of development of abstract
processing to call a fiddle- shaped table a "fiddle". I would say that's a
rather Piagetian way to put it: development first, and then learning.
I geuss you misunderstood me. I was making the claim regarding the
decoding of having someone else call a table a "fiddle". Not of the actual
labeling of a table as a fiddle. That indeed is a Vygotskian idea that a
child will place abstract thought into concrete applications. Davydov
emphasizes that elementary teaching is having the child "rise to the level
of concrete" thinking.
my thinking any clearer?
eric
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