[Xmca-l] Re: The ideal head

[Huw Lloyd]

On 30 July 2014 18:30, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Martin,
> Vygotsky's Problem of Age is a difficult essay. I wonder if you could say a
> bit more about the crisis at 6 (7,8?) years and the one at 12 years? The
> others are fairly self explanatory but those two are a bit more
> complicated. Among other things, it isn't clear what is different about the
> crisis at 2.5 and the crisis at 6.
> -greg
>
>
Greg

See Leontyev's paper, The Theory of the Development of the Child's Psyche
in The Development of Mind: Selected Works of A. N. Leontyev (pp. 361-362)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/leontev/works/development-mind.pdf

Best,
Huw



>
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Martin John Packer <
> mpacker@uniandes.edu.co
> > wrote:
>
> > Though in other texts he wrote of adolescence as such a time of crisis
> > that the whole stage should be considered a transition. In the lectures
> on
> > child development Vygotsky describes the following crises:
> >
> > Birth: the child is differentiated physically
> > 1 year: the child is differentiated biologically
> > 2.5 years: the child is differentiated psychologically
> > 6 years: inside & outside of self are differentiated
> > 12 years: actual & possible selves are differentiated
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On Jul 28, 2014, at 6:36 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Francis, most of the crises which Vygotsky mentions in
> > > http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1934/problem-age.htm
> > > are associated with childhood before school. (It is an unfinished
> work).
> > > Andy
> > >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > *Andy Blunden*
> > > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> > >
> > >
> > > FRANCIS J. SULLIVAN wrote:
> > >> ...
> > >>
> > >> In any case, I wonder if Vygotsky considered whether schooling itself
> > might
> > >> be responsible, at least partly, for the child's apparent alienation
> > from
> > >> schooling at these moments.
> > >>
> > >> Francis J. Sullivan, Ph.D.
> > >>
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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