>Dear Eugene-- When did you stop being 60 and very serious? :-)
You are probably right -- I was born 60 reading Vygotsky all 9 months of my
embrionic development.
>With unemployment of people in the 18-30 age range running 20 and more
>percent all over Europe it is a little difficult to understand the great
>enthusiasm for the benefits of capitalism vis a vis "youth"!!
In several presentations by European scholars, they made a point that
cross-European statstics about youth unemployment is often misleading. What
is considered to be unemplyed in one country is not in another. For
example, non-paid apprenticeship is considered to be unemployement in Spain
but not in France.
>When you get another hundred messages down your long list (oh the pain
>of return to email!) you will find one from Marc Camras, who works here
>at LCHC, asking about the generalization of research discussed in
>Rogoff and Tudges article on Vygotsky and Piaget focused around a contrast
>between peers and more knowledgable others. We are finding ourselves
>becoming more and more involved with "kids" across an age span from 3-18
>which brings with it a lot of questions that do not arise in the
>cultural-historical research tradition very often.
We (adult society) have created huge age segregation and problems of "them"
joining us. I observed in California high school students particiapting in
fast track private colleges run by Russian immigrants for adults and
integration of youth adults in this educational institution. Take away
segregation and categories "childhood" and "adolescence" would disappear.
>The question of adolescence/youth must be very acute in Russia rightr
>now owing to the protracted process of conversion to late 19th
>century capitalism under conditions of late 20th century technology.
>
>Anyone you know who could inform us about that?
I met Arkady Mardolis at the conference. I think he may help. His e-mail
is margolis who-is-at edupsych.msk.su
Eugene
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