thanks for the interest. Lewin's ideas seem to me very very relevant for
CHAT - because he was stressing the situatedness of the individual and
interaction between person and her/his socio-cuiltural environment in a
particular historical point in time. It is also known today that Lewin was
acquainted with the Moscow group: Vygotsky, Luria, Davidov and others and
that they had very lively discussions on several occasions. Lewin even
visited Moscow in 1933 and stayed at Vygotsky's home for several weeks.
Vygotsky gave a very detailed critique of Lewin's ideas in his "Language and
Thought"...
I can't answer the question about putting together a special issue of Mind,
Culture and Activity just now. I would like to consult with the two other
co-chairs of the program committee: Albert Pepitone and Robert Kleiner. I do
think, however, that it would be a very interesting task and that some
aspects of the Field Theory fill in some gaps in CHAT.
Ana
At 07:29 AM 8/7/96 -0700, you wrote:
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>That looks like a terrifically interesting meeting at UCLA, Ana.
>A way of brining Lewin's ideas into xmca discourse would be very
>nice. Do you suppose that you could put together a special
>issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity on the basis of a selection
>of those talks?
>
>Unfortunately, I will be in Europe at the time of the meeting or
>I would certainly be there.
>mike
>Michael Cole
>Communication Department and Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
>MAAC 517 Second Floor, Q-092
>University of California, La Jolla, California, 92093
>Phone (619) 534-4590
>Fax (619) 5347746
>
>
>
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