Re: [xmca] LSV's use of metaphor

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

:-)
Slippery these metaphors!
Can I toss in  "Zone of proximal development" along with vryaychivanie and
"Consciousness is reflected in the word like the sun is reflected in a drop
of water" (1987, p. 285)?
mike

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Colette Murphy <c.a.murphy@qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> I was thinking more of the type of toy trains that my brothers would have
> played with - very, very independently moving coaches! But, come to think of
> it, some coaches often fell off - ouch. But seriously, I do like the idea
> that the teacher is like a little bit of track - the coaches arrive from
> soemwhere and travel for a little distance along a path directed by the
> teacher before they go elsewhere on their journey of life..
> colette
>
> Dr Colette Murphy
> Senior Lecturer
> School of Education
> 69 University St
> Queen's University
> Belfast BT7 1HL
>
> tel: 02890975953
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> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On Behalf
> Of mike cole [lchcmike@gmail.com]
> Sent: 07 October 2010 23:05
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: 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
> >
> > Dr Colette Murphy
> > Senior Lecturer
> > School of Education
> > 69 University St
> > Queen's University
> > Belfast BT7 1HL
> >
> > tel: 02890975953
> > ________________________________________
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Robert Lake  Ed.D.
> > Assistant Professor
> > Social Foundations of Education
> > Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
> > Georgia Southern University
> > P. O. Box 8144
> > Phone: (912) 478-5125
> > Fax: (912) 478-5382
> > Statesboro, GA  30460
> >
> >
> >  Democracy must be born anew in every generation, and education is its
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> > -John Dewey.
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