Re: Shif (Re: 2ND THOUGHTS)

Peter Smagorinsky (smago who-is-at peachnet.campuscwix.net)
Sat, 10 Apr 1999 17:49:19 -0400

She also coauthored the Afterword to Vygotsky's Collected Works Vol 2
(fundamentals of defectology) with Bein, Vlasova, Levina, and Morozova.

At 09:45 PM 4/10/99 +0200, you wrote:
>At 11:19 10-4-99 -0600, you wrote:
>> does anyone know about the work of Zhozephina Shif? she worked
>>with Vygotsky (p. 146, Thought & language - paperback).
>>
>
>Zjozephina Iljinitsjna Sjif (1904-1979) worked in the field of Soviet
>defektology. She researched the development of thinking (thought) and
>language in deaf, mentally retarded and normal children. According to the
>defektological encyclopedija (Defektologiceskij slovar' 1970) her work
>has been important for the special education for the deaf and mentally
>retarded children in Russia.
>
>Shif is probably best known outside defektology for her dissertation
>research on scientific concepts which she did under the mentorship of
>Vygotskij. Van de Veer and Valsiner (1991) give an account of Shifs
>research p.271 vv.
>Shifs dissertation was published in 1935: "The development of scientific
>concepts (naucnich ponjatij) in children" with an introduction by Vygotskij.
>
>During the long period of her work in defektology Shif edited several
>volumes, one of which I have in German translation: "Besonderheiten
>des geistigen Entwicklung von Hilfsschuelern", Volk und Wissen, Berlin,
>1971. This book was writen for the teacher in the school for mentally
>retarded children.
>
>Anna Strumphler
>