Re: elkonin boxes

From: Judith Diamondstone (diamonju@rci.rutgers.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 25 2001 - 08:43:21 PST


I assume it's the rage in the reading community because Marie Clay used
Elkonin to develop Reading Recovery -- Judy

based on her At 07:26 AM 3/25/01 -0600, you wrote:
>
>I recently did a search on Elkonin and to my surprise countless hits came
>back. They all related to these "Elkonin boxes". My surprise was partly due
>to doing a similar search about six months ago (not google though) and only
>coming up with a few sites - mine in particular. My question would be did I
>receive these countless hits because I was using a superior search engine,
>or are Elkonin blocks the "fad" now. NAEYC even appears to give them the DAP
>stamp of approval.
>
>The Elkonin piece that is referred to is, Elkonin, D. B. 1963,
>
> ‘The Psychology of Mastery of Elements of Reading’, Educational Psychology
>in the USSR, papers by D.N. Bogoiavenski et al., translated by Brian and
>Joan Simon, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, pp. 165–179.
>
>Is anyone familiar with this piece, and any ideas on tracking it down?
>
>Nate
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>
>
> "The individual, when he apprehends himself as such, is social in his
>essence. He is social not as a result of external contingencies, but by
>virtue of an internal necessity, by virtue of his genesis." Henri Wallon
>
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