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For Vygotsky, the relationship between instruction and development was at the core of the dialectical movement between spontaneous and scientific concepts: in the process of instruction, spontaneous concepts are the cognitive framework, the seeding ground, for the emergence of nonspontaneous (scientific) concepts. Instruction, then, is the impetus for the development of this new type of concept.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar el Akkad
The monist/reductionist program always has roughly the same structure: a body of experience or data is dissected into components, some of which are said to have features that disproportionately determine the properties of the whole they together compose. The whole is then analyzed primarily in terms of these favored parts, on the grounds that these parts exist in and of themselves, operate largely according to their own laws, and powerfully influence the whole by processes immune to major alteration by operations of other parts of the whole.
Liberating Theory
Michael Albert, Holly Sklar
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