Re: Activity and Money

From: Judy Diamondstone (diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 11:22:36 PST


Andy, Paul -- are you familiar with Walkerdine? (*The master of reason*) --
she looks at kids' socialization into mathematics as a communicative
process embedded in meaning-making practices at home including role play
around money

Judy

At 09:59 PM 12/14/00 +1100, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of a work in the Vygotsky School which deals with money?
>
>For example, has any maths teacher in the CHAT tradition discussed why
>children who cannot do 6-2=4 know that if they have $6 and lose $2 then
>they have $4 left? Has anyone studied the development in a child of the
>idea that labour should be exchanged? of the concept of value? of why
>wage-slavery is more respectable than domestic servitude but less
>prestigious than exploiting others?
>
>There's a lot of material about knowledge, but has anyone in the Vygotsky
>school talked about ethics?
>
>Andy
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