[Xmca-l] Re: The ideal head

[Greg Thompson]

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


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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