Appropriation

Appropriation - used by Rogoff (1990) as a substitute for "internalization." Appropriation implies that learning involves more of a social component than internalization. "Learning does indeed depend on the prior existence of more complex structures, but these more complex cognitive structures are situated in the culture, not the child (Fodor 1980)." "Appropriation is theoretically neutral with respect to the location of knowledge for those allergic to the notion of having anything inside the head (Brown et al. 1993)." (Brown et al. 1993)

descriptions: "learners of all ages and levels of expertise and interest seed the environment with ideas and knowledge that are appropriated by different learners at different rates, according to their needs and to the current state of the zones of proximal development in which they are engaged." (Brown, et. al. 1993)