Martin Owen (t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk)
Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:34:44 +0000
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 10:34:44 +0000 From: Martin Owen <t.m.owen@bangor.ac.uk> Subject: Re: "Technology is nothing more or less than a natural phase"
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As it is my sig line I would briefly add that since Friere wrote those
lines i think a lot of thinking about the nature of technology and socety
has taken place.
Simple materialist and simple technological determinist approaches are not
sufficient , however I would urge people to look at the kind of work that
has developed from Vygotsky and Ilontjev' s Activity Theory.
A good reference to this is the work of Mike Cole and Yrjo Engestrom (see
for instance Chap 1 of Soloman G "Distributed Cognitions" CUP, 1993 ... and
also David Perkin's chapter in the same book_.)
if youdo not have an academic linrary close at hand try Engestrom's website
at the University of Helsiniki (sorry I do not have the URL to hand but
there is enough info to find it using a search engine).
I do not have time to write more at this juncture save to say the picture
is very rich and very complex!
Martin
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"Technology is nothing more or less than a natural phase of the creative
process which engaged man from the moment he forged his first tool and
began to transform the world for its humanization"
Paulo Freire : Cultural Action for Freedom
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