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Re: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

Woa, not so sure about the train track metaphor. The train moves freely up
and down a pre-scribed
track and the only thing that can vary "independently" is speed! Brrrr.
mike

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Colette Murphy <c.a.murphy@qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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