Copies of your articles

Ricardo Ottoni (rjapias who-is-at attglobal.net)
Wed, 03 Nov 1999 22:20:38 -0300

Dear Artin,

I have just received tonight the pack you sent me.
Thank you very much.

Pack content:
1)PARENT INVOLVEMENT IN URBAN ERLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
2)SOME CONTRIBUTIONS OF A VYGOTSKIAN APPPROACH TO EARLY CHILDHOOD
3)CULTURAL VARIATIONS IN THE PLAY OF TODDLERS
4)CHILDREN'S PLAY AS REPRESENTATIONAL AND IMAGINATION: THE CASE OF
PIAGET AND VYGOTSKY
5)CULTURAL VARIATION IN PLAY: A CHALLENGE TO PAIGET AND VYGOTSKY
6)CHILDREN'S AND RESEARCHER'S ENGAGEMENT IN THE THE WORLD
7)CHILDREN'S PLAY AS CULTURAL ACTIVITY

Let me tell you something: Although my address was wrote down right by
you, the postman put the pack in a neighbour's box (Can you believe
that?! "Those things"... as we say here, in Brazil).
But she took me the pack a few times ago and I have just read your
PARENT INVOLVEMENT.... And I like it very much.
Well:
I recently read an article of Julia Formosinho (Phd from
Portugal/University of Minho)on High Scope, and you refers to that
curriculum proposal in your article.
According to Formosinho, High Scope is too much based on Piagetian
conception of cognitive development - although she refers to some
Vygotsky's ideas in defense of it.
Would you please tell me a few words about your personal evaluation of
High Scope proposal? Despite, of course, the discussion you mention in
your article - that held in Seatle/75, when you analise critically some
features of parents as active in school governance.

I'll be glad and thankful.

Ricardo.