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Peer reviewedSmagorinsky, Peter – Review of Educational Research, 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
