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ERIC Number: EJ515488
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1995
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ISSN: ISSN-0034-6543
The Social Construction of Data: Methodological Problems of Investigating Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development.
Smagorinsky, Peter
Review of Educational Research, v65 n3 p191-212 Fall 1995
The appropriateness of the metaphor of the purity of data is questioned, using a perspective based on L. S. Vygotsky's idea of the zone of proximal development and its emphasis on a genetic method in which development is mediated by cultural tools and signs. (SLD)
Descriptors: Culture, Data Collection, Individual Development, Learning, Metaphors, Psychological Studies, Research Problems
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Data Quality; Social Construction; Vygotsky (Lev S); Zone of Proximal Development
Note: Version of a paper presented at the International Conference on Lev Vygotsky and Contemporary Human Sciences (Moscow, Russia, September 5-8, 1994). Conference participation supported by the Department of State and research supported by the University of Oklahoma.