ABSTRACT
I was fortunate to have Dan Slobin as one of my mentors. While he was never ofcially my advi-sor, I took all the graduate courses Dan offered while I was at Berkeley and participated in many informal intellectual gatherings at his home in the Berkeley hills. Following the practice of one of his own mentors, Jerome Bruner, Dan used to invite the developmental students to his home for lively discussions in connection with graduate seminars or visits by scholars from elsewhere-thus giving us opportunities for the “legitimate peripheral participation” that graduate apprenticeship requires. Since leaving Berkeley, I’ve continued to be educated and intellectually stimulated by his work and the intellectual sensibility informing it.
