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In this paper I elaborate on the concept of dialogical Co-ZPD proposed in the conclusion of a paper by (Boulanger et al., in Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 54, 269–285, 2020). I do this by insisting on potentiality as one of its main dimension. I situate it amidst generations and across timelines in a dialogical perspective and I try to set it in irreversible time. I display the positioning dynamics by which children and elders overcome one another’s limits in a fluid matters, through dialogical intercourse. I provide different examples from the analysis of elders’ discourses.
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Wertsch is refering to Vygotsky.
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This paper used some of the data published in Boulanger (in press). The research has been funded by the Research funds Society and Culture (postdoctoral grant) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (postdoctoral grant).
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Boulanger, D. The Concept of Dialogical CO-Zone of Proximal Development: Intergenerationality in the Making. Integr. psych. behav. 56, 34–57 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-022-09676-6
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