[Xmca-l] Re: units of analysis?

[Andy Blunden]

Martin,
5 minutes ago you were lecturing Robyn Babaeff on the distinction 
between the 1st, 2nd and 3rd child. I presume you could also tell us 
about the difference between the psychology of an adult and a child of 
this or that age. I thought that we had established that the point 
Vygotsky is expressing in a dozen different ways (in the hope of not 
being misconstrued) is that it is not the world as such but the relation 
between the person and the world, the significance of the world for the 
child, the child's orientation to the world, the child's situation, and 
I think you threw in the *duties* of the child/man, as something 
distinct from the expectations placed upon a child. To talk about "the 
world a person lives in" is just another one of the hundred different 
ways of formulating the same relation. OK?

Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


Martin John Packer wrote:
> Where did LSV draw a distinction between the child's world and the wider world, Andy?
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> So adults raise children in the wider world, but those children live somewhere else? 
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> On Oct 13, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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>> I think that street kids and child soldiers, etc., like the oldest child in Vygotsky's case study, are kids who have been thrust into the adult world developmentally before their time. To accept that there is no fixed and firm line between the child's world and the wider world in which adults make a living, marry, raise children, vote and fight wars is not to deny the existence of the distinction.
>> In any case, whatever you or I think, Vygotsky (who knew plenty of street kids) used this distinction.
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>> Andy
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>> *Andy Blunden*
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>> Martin John Packer wrote:
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>>> Oh come, on Andy!  Where is this "adult world" that apparently children do not live in? Do they live, then, in a separate "child world"? If so, in which of these worlds do parents become alcoholics? Here in Bogotá there are children living in the streets. In Western Africa there are children dying of ebola. Which world do they live in, exactly?
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>>> On Oct 13, 2014, at 6:28 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
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>>>> However, these kind of translations are quite unsuitable for characterising the position of a child. They are relevant only to the adult world. In the context of child-and-carers, I think "attitude" is just as good as "interpretation", "significance", etc., the various words Vygotsky uses to indicate the relation relevant at the child's stage of development.
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