Re: George Herbert Mead

From: Ben Reshef family (victor@kfar-hanassi.org.il)
Date: Fri Oct 17 2003 - 02:13:40 PDT


Valsiner, Jaan and Rene Van de Veer. "On the social nature of human
cognition: An analysis of the shared intellectual roots of George Herbert
Mead and Lev Vygotsky. In Lev Vygotsky: Critical Assessments: Vygotsky's
theory Vol 1 edited by Peter Lloyd. New York: Routledge (1999):145-164.
Also check out the online pdf article ]Dewey and Vygotsky: Society,
Experience, and Inquiry in Educational Practice at
www.aera.net/pubs/er/pdf/vol30_04/AERA300402.pdf - 16 Oct 2003. True, this
refers to Dewey rather than Mead, but Dewey and GH are very similar in
theory. This article suggests that Mead, through Dewey had considerable
influences on Soviet theory of education and social psychology.

"Dewey and Vygotsky in Historical Context There are historically based
explanations for both the strong similarities
In 1928 Dewey visited the Soviet Union (although the schools were closed for
vacation for most of the time he was there). Prawat (2001) recounts how
Dewey visited Second Moscow University during this trip at the time Vygotsky
was a rising young star there. Dewey certainly met with Blonsky, Vygotsky's
compatriot, and Prawatt (2001) builds a fairly strong circumstantial case
that Dewey actually met with Vygotsky. This only adds to the probability
that Dewey influenced Vygotsky's early work.

  Enough for now
Victor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net>
To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:15 AM
Subject: George Herbert Mead

> Do any of you xmca-ers have a critique of George Herbert mead from the
> Vygotsky perspective at your finger tips? or a "compare and contrast"?
>
> Andy
>



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