Yes, this is a wonderful paper. Prawat by the way had an earlier paper on
Vygotsky and Dewey - in Mind, Culture and Activity, in 2000, I think. As to
this paper in American Educational Journal, I thought that its even more
important contribution (in addition to comments on the sources of Vygotskian
resolution of private/public dilemma) was that of re-constructing the
cultural-historical context of Vygotsky's works. Specifically, that
Lunacharskij and Krupskaja (widow of Vladimir Lenin) played the most
significant role in promoting Vygotsky to one of the leading positions in
Moscow. The scope of Prawat's knowledge and insight into the internal and
often tacit dynamics of the political and education scenes in Russia of that
time is simply amazing.
Anna Stetsenko
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From: Cunningham, Donald [mailto:cunningh@indiana.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 12:03 PM
To: 'xmca@weber.ucsd.edu'
Subject: Dewey meets Vygotsky
Anybody else read Prawat's piece in American Educational Research Journal
(39, 663-698)? I would be interested in the opinions of the Vygotsky
scholars on the list. In the paper Prawat argues that the two had a "meeting
of the minds", a mutual influence stemming from a possible FTF meeting in
1928, but at least from a demonstrable knowledge of each others work. Dewey
and Peirce (through Dewey) are said to have helped Vygotsky resolve his
"dilemma" with private and public meaning.
djc
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