Re: [xmca] Vygotsky-text-context-thinking

Colin,
I would assert that individuals who do not formally read or write are
politically marginalized, however, I am curious what measure, standards,
or means allow you to contend that "pre-literate" individuals or peoples
are "culturally impoverished"? Your sentiment sounds a little too much why
my illiterate ancestors left Ireland after the anti-Catholic laws were
enacted.
Cathrene

Eric,
>
> No one, I hope, would suggest that to be 'pre-literate' is to lack highly
> developed mental functions. However, to be
> 'pre-literate' in today's world - thanks to phylogensis, to be sure - is
> to be culturally and politically impoverished. Most
> preliteracy today is a political scandal, along with other forms of
> impoverishment.
>
> A handful of billionaires are worth more in money terms than forty whole
> countries. Read this, and employ those higher mental
> functions!
>
> Colin
>
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>>>> <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> 07/09/08 2:30 PM >>>
>
> Colin:
> you wrote:
>
> We can 'converse' across the oceans, and
> with the dead and the not-yet born, in ways that 'pre-literate' peoples
> could not imagine. To enable the largest possible part of
> humanity to have access to the fruits of literacy is, thus, to empower
> them
> socially, rather than to 'engineer' them.
>
>
> I like the sentiment, I truely do, but I have met many so called
> 'pre-literates' that have highly developed mental functions and carry out
> incredibly complex activities. This development is the ontogenetic
> process. When you generalize to the vast digest of human literary output
> I
> step out into the abyss and state this would be the phylogenetic
> development of the human species and not an individual's ontogeny. Does
> that make sense or do I float unsupported?
>
> eric
>
>
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