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Observing sociocultural activity on three planes: participatory

appropriation, guided participation, and apprenticeship Barbara
Rogoff

Thefirst impressionof this articlewas notgoodatall.Expressingthoughts,opinions

and impressions may be the most humantraitthat exists,apart from the supposed
thinking that every human being is technically able to do. As it was being said,
expressing what one thinks is a pleasure for eachhuman, feeling herself o himself
importantto beaskedfor their opinions, butwhenonehuman has togiveherorhis
opinionaboutatwentypagedarticle,themotivationisknownforitslackof.

But asitis commonly said, do notjudgeabookforitscover,asthefirstimpressions

are not themost reliableones. Whenthe articlestartsquoting bigeducation figures
suchasDeweyorVygotsky,BarbaraRogoffhaspickedmywholeattention.Thefirst
`points made are not newat all,basicallyRogoff issayinghowachilddoesnotonly
learn in one dimension but in more than one, which is the reason why taking into
accountthecontextachildisdevelopinginhassomuchimportance.

Exemplificationis a resource used frequently ineveryandeachoneofthe quotidian

activities that can be done, although it is mostly used when doing explanations
withoutmattering thefieldinwhicharegiven.Theauthorexemplifiestheexplanation
adefinition of thecontext,whichhelpsthereadertointroduceher/himselfevenmore
in the article, achieving that whatcould havebeen a boringbut interestingreading,
ended up being more enjoyable. Although using examplesin explanations may not
seem ideal for most professionals, here it is completely justified from my point of
view. Sadly, when this resource is used in the definition of guided participation it
becomes hard to read, because of all the different facts regarding the Scout Girls
sells.

Theconceptsexposed inthearticlearewelldefinedanditallowsthereaderbeable
to understand howthoseaffect a childs development. The termofapprenticeshipis
the first one, andifitcanbe saidis theeasiesttounderstandasisnotassubjective
astheothertwo.

Despite the length ofthearticle,thecontentisinterestingforateacher.Therelations

that are established in a communicative situation and the level ofparticipationthat
each agent decides to involve her or himself, have been proved to have a huge
effect on the development of andfromeachone oftheperspectives. However,this
communicativesituation must havean objective, or moreaccuratelyand howinthis
articleis mentioned, thesesituations mustbelongor bepartofanactivity.Infact, all

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these conceptsandtermsaredefinedandexemplifiedinanactivity,whichsurelywill
help future teachers to encourage the communication of the peer group, that as
Vygotskysaidincreaseschildrenscapacitiesoflanguageandmanyothers.

Reading this article helps the readerto have more reasons tobelieve howexternal
agents that are not teachers affect childrens learning process. Participation of the
maximum number of community agents can only cause a positive change in the
currentlearningandeducationalsystem,andthisarticleclearlyshowshow.