RE: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

[Colette Murphy <c.a.murphy@qub.ac.uk>]

One that I like a lot:

According to Vygotsky the teacher should be the track upon which the train coaches move freely and independently. The track only gives the coaches the direction of their own movement. 
(Vygotsky, A Reawakened Star: http://www.marxist.com/science-old/vygotsky_501.html)

Best

Colette

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From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Robert Lake [boblake@georgiasouthern.edu]
Sent: 07 October 2010 21:15
To: Culture Activity eXtended Mind
Subject: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

Hi Everyone,
I am gathering the use of metaphors in Vygotsky's work for a publication and want to be sure to include as many as possible.
without any knowledge of Russian along with the fact that I have
only recently begun a serious investigation of his work.

In her essay on Vygotsky on Thinking and Speaking in the Cambridge companion to Vygotsky,(2007) Vera John-Steiner cites some of Vygotsky's most famous examples, i.e. inner speech as "speech turning inward"; thought as a "cloud shedding a shower of words"; "consciousness is reflected in a word in a word as the sun in a drop of water". (p.151).

Yes I know "tool" is a controversial example to some people :-).

Can you folks think of any others ?

Thank-you in advance for any help with this.
Robert Lake






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