Vygotsky and disability

Claudia M. Villar (cvillar who-is-at netverk.com.ar)
Sun, 24 May 1998 02:14:41 -0200

This is a forward of J.P.Das' e-mail.
I'm in contact with him and here we have some comments about this topic
from him.
Claudia

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>Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 21:33:26 -0600
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>To: "Claudia M. Villar" <cvillar who-is-at netverk.com.ar>
>From: "J.P. Das" <j.p.das who-is-at ualberta.ca>
>Subject: Re: something about you... Fw:Vygotsky and disability
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>>IN REGARD TO MY POINT #5 ON VYGOTSKY:
>CULTURAL LEARNINGIS USUALLY TRANSMITTED THROUGH(1) ADULT-CHILD
>INTERACTION(OFTEN TRANSLATED AS 'INTERCOURSE').DAS HAS ADDED TO THIS(2) THE
>SOURCES FROM BOOKS,AUTHORITIES AND NOW COMPUTER DATA BASE(KNOWLEDGE-BASE).
>I(DAS) THINK THE DISABLED CHILD IS DISADVANTAGED IN REGARD TO
>BOTH.ADULT-CHILD INTERACTIONS ARE NOT OF AS HIGH A QUALITY WITH DISABLED
>CHILDREN COMPARED TO NONDISABLED CHILDREN AND THE MENTALLY DISABLED OR
>ABNORMAL CHILDREN CANNOT USE THE DATA-BASE AS WELL AS OTHERS.
>INFACT,COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IS NATURALLY OCCURRING IN NONDISABLED 'NORMAL'
>CHILDREN STIMULATED BY CULTURAL LEARNING. SINCE THE DISABLED MISS OUT ON
>CULTURAL LEARNING,THEY HAVE TO BE TAUGHT DELIBERATELY.
>THERE MAY BE OTHER INTERPRETATIONS THAT DO NOT APPEAR TO ME TO BE OBVIOUS
>AT PRESENT.
>J P DAS
>
>CLAUDIA:please forward this.Thanks.
>
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>>>Someone recently posted the url of the education dictionary,
>>>Dictionary of Education PLUS.
>>>http://dictionary.soe.umich.edu/plus/index.html
>>>I was browsing the dictionary and came to the following
>>>definition of Vygotsky and disability. I was puzzled by the 5th
>>>point which more or less argued that in "disabled" children
>>>cognitive and cultural development (instructed learning) do not
>>>merge. I am curious of any thoughts on this point.
>>>
>>>Nate
>>>
>>>Dictionary of Education PLUS
>>>a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v
>>>w y z
>>>
>>>----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>----------------
>>>
>>>Vygotsky's epistemology of disability
>>>
>>>Thus, what have we learned from the Vygotsirian epistemology of
>>>disability?
>>>
>>>1. Disability, a negative term, can be transformed to a positive
>>>one that will enable us to examine the unique and creative ways
>>>in which the so-called disabled child develops.
>>>
>>>2. The development of the disabled child is thus qualitatively
>>>different, rather than slow or inferior in a quantitative
>>>matrix.
>>>
>>> 3. With the help of appropriate social supports, disabled
>>>children will have one less obstacle to overcome, which is low
>>>self-esteem and inferiority complex.
>>>
>>>4. Intellectual abilities are diverse and heterogeneous in both
>>>so-called disabled and normal children, and their development
>>>proceeds in unique ways in the context of their sociocultural
>>>milieu.
>>>
>>>5. Whereas in most nondisabled children intellectual development
>>>and the development of cultural learning converge, in most
>>>so-called disabled children, they do not. <In a prior passage
>>>the statement was made that cultural learning is instructed
>>>learning.>
>>>
>>>
>>>J. P. Das, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
>>>(1995), Some Thoughts on Two Aspects of Vygotsky's Work,
>>>EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST, 30(2) 93-97
>>>
>>>Nate Schmolze
>>>http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9148/index.html
>>>schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu
>>>
>>>
>>>
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