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RE: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?

Hello Vera,

This is a question that every Hungarian was asking me when I was living in Budapest and every Hungarian that it happened to meet anywhere else in the world:) Well my brother initially was studying at Szeged (generally many cypriots are studying in Hungary Medicine and Engineering since the Eastern european block time) but after the opening of the borders many hungarian universities have developed english speaking curriculums where they attracting many international students for various disciplines, first of all for the quality of the studies and second for the amazing student lifestyle of Budapest,plus if you are a man for the amazing beautiful inside and outside women of Hungary:)So when i was 15 years old I have decided to study Psychology somewhere in Europe and i visited my brother there for a short summer holiday and i have falled in love with the city so then I discovered that it was an international psychology program at Eotvos Lorand and when i have finished my army compulsory duty in Cyprus been already 20 years old I got accepted at the faculty after some exams and I had the most intellectual stimulied period of my life for 5 amazing years:) 

Nektarios


-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Vera John-Steiner
Sent: Sun 11/11/2012 3:38 AM
To: 'eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity'
Subject: RE: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
 
Hi Nektarius,
A further question about your background. How did you happen to attend
Oetvos Lorand?  I am from Budapest, originally, and have spent time around
the Psych. department there on various trips back to Hungary. Do you know
Pleh Csaba?
Best,
Vera John-Steiner

-----Original Message-----
From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
Behalf Of Nektarios Alexi
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 3:50 AM
To: ablunden@mira.net; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity; eXtended Mind,
Culture, Activity
Subject: RE: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?

Thats a good question Andy, it seems that a sequence of events lead me to
xmca, but i think who put the seed to me of such a comprehensive approach to
human development and human problems was my professor of developmental
psychology Magda Kalmar when i was doing my BA Psychology and MA Clinical
Psychology at Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest. She has worked directly
with Jerome Bruner i have discovered accidentally a week ago ''In Oxford
Bruner collected a large group of graduate students and post-doctoral
fellows who participated in the effort to understand how young children
manage to crack the linguistic code, among them Alison Gopnik, Magda Kalmar
hu:Kalmár Magda (pszichológus), Alan Leslie, Andrew Meltzoff, Anat Ninio,
Roy Pea, Susan Sugarman [2], Michael Scaife, Marian Sigman [3], Kathy Sylva
and many others. '' (Wikipedia) and Uri Bronfenbrenner i think. But i didnt
know about xmc a specifically till 2 years ago when i started writing my PhD
research proposal here at Charles Darwin University where i was seeking
material to write a proposal explaining help-seeking behaviours for mental
illness under a sociocultural framework, and somehow through google i have
discovered the infinite food for thought world of xmca:) 

Nektarios


-----Original Message-----U BronfenbrennerFrom: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
on behalf of Andy Blunden
Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 7:05 PM
To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
 
The infinite regression happens by itself, Nektarios, along with the
pleasure you will get from reading this stuff. Don't worry about "absolute
answers" because you won't find them. What brought you to xmca to begin
with?

Andy

Nektarios Alexi wrote:
>
> But what about creating questions as reading? What about expanding by 
> learning? And what about reading for the sake of questioning rather 
> than seeking for absolute answers? What about reading for sake of the 
> pleasure of reading by it self? But not a pleasure that it is 
> exhausted after its fullfillment but for a pleasure that is getting 
> deeper and deeper as more someone read?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of Andy Blunden
> Sent: Sat 11/10/2012 2:02 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] ISCAR Newsletter?
>
> To read productively, Nektarios, I think it is always necessary to 
> read purposively, that is, especially, to seek for the answers to 
> specific questions (or betters ways of framing the question!). 
> Sometimes what you are reading is not at the appropriate degree of 
> generality to give answers recognisable to your questions, and that is a
problem in itself.
> But always proceed like Sherlock Holmes, looking for clues.
>
> Andy
>
> Nektarios Alexi wrote:
> >
> > Hi Andy,
> >
> > Tnx for posting your work. I am looking toward to read it carefully 
> > very soon and hope to come up with some relevant questions.
> >
> > Sometime it is hard to find appropriate questions, because i am not 
> > always sure if i am understanding correctly what i am reading, from 
> > scholars of the calibre that are writing in this forum. But i think 
> > that all these fascinating readings that people posting here it is a 
> > kind of Zone of Proximal development for me since it keeps my 
> > intellectual curiosity always alert.
> >
> >
> >
> > Nektarios
> >
>


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