Re: LSV and Defectology

Peter Smagorinsky (psmagorinsky who-is-at ou.edu)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 16:18:42

The school was not far from the "Russian vatican," if that helps to locate
it for anyone....I'm directionally challenged, I'm afraid to say.

At 02:02 PM 2/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Peter--
>
>I haven't attended the 1994 Vygotsky's conference but I think it was school
>in Zagorsk. I remember seeing a documentary in the former Soviet Union
>about that school. If I don't confuse something, the documentary was about
>a mute and deaf graduate of the Zagorsk school who became, I guess, a
>philosopher. He mentioned Il'enkov who had worked in the school and
>Vygotsky who had defined the approach. He highly praised both of them. It
>was a very touchy personal account (this person wanted to commit suicide
>several times in his life).