Won’t say too much about this, as I’ve recalled Holland’s book to the library and I guess I’ll get round to reading it one day.

‘”Perhaps an AA member can/will tell the story of her life as an alcoholic only sith support of other AA members. The story lies within her zone of proximal development, if not within her sole capacity.'”

Holland and co point out that Vygotsky de-emphasises power, ownership and control in considering the ZPD. Participants are not equal – the ZPD is a place for struggle. They propose the concept of positionality to visualise individual stances in sociocultural worlds [it looks as if Rasmussen is saying that Holland et al came up with this in 1998. That can’t be the case? Can it? No, not according to Google].

Holland refers to the positional aspects of identity. Wonder whether everyone agrees with position and identity being separate? Or, would I be more correct in wondering whether positionality and identity are separate?