[Xmca-l] Re: Gunilla's 1996 paper
Leif Strandberg
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greetings from Sweden
Leif
15 feb 2017 kl. 19:03 skrev Beth Ferholt <bferholt@gmail.com>:
> Thank you! A very interesting way to discuss this -- It has mean thinking
> about it anew, Beth
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 3:53 PM, <lpscholar2@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Beth,
>>
>> This most recent article fleshes out and makes distinct Gunilla’s
>> contribution to re-interpreting Vygotsky and moving away from Leontiev who
>> believes children are modelling themselves on adults. i will quote a
>> paragraph from page 930 of your and Monica’s article that should give pause
>> as we move around and through this topic of playworlds :
>>
>>
>>
>> Of central importance to Lindqvist’s (1995, p. 50) theory of play is her
>> positioning of herself in opposition to Leontiev, whom she characterizes as
>> believing that adult roles are what children plat at, as believing that
>> children’s ‘play faces the future’ because children in play are MODELING
>> themselves on adults. She explains that Leontiev thinks of play as
>> REPRODUCTION of roles in an adult world, not as PRODUCTIVE. Here Lindqvist
>> is arguing that children are, often, modeling themselves on adults in play,
>> but that play faces a future that will be created, in part, by those who
>> are now children, and that will be created within some constraints that
>> those who are now adults cannot even imagine.
>>
>> Lindqvist’s contribution to play theory derives in part from her ability
>> to interpret Vygotsky’s work from outside the cultural, historical, and
>> political context in which it was created.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I offer this paragraph because when I read the above quote in which the
>> semantic ‘()’ challenges what in particular children are modelling (i.e.
>> adults) this leaves open the centrality of the modelling process itself as
>> the focus and not being **an adult**.
>>
>>
>>
>> When Gunilla introduces **fear** figuratively AS the person under the
>> bed, a modelling process is presented in a shared world but that modelling
>> is not focusing on being **an adult**.
>>
>> Now the modelling process can be **an adult** or the modelling process
>> can be **fear**.
>>
>>
>>
>> Each are particular instances of this modelling process. The modelling
>> becomes the central focus. If we treat ‘adult’ as real and ‘fear’ as
>> pretend and draw a RIGID boundary ‘marker’ between modelling (an adult) and
>> modelling (fear) as two opposite phenomena, we seem to loose the actual
>> phenomena of modelling and its centrality.
>>
>>
>>
>> When **fear** is actualized as a person and **an adult** is actualized as
>> a person, children can model either within a dramatic ‘()’.
>>
>> This phenomena has many sides in the way Merleau Ponty images ‘sides’ or
>> aspects. For example if we face the forward or side of something we
>> imagine the back ‘side’ and move to verify this in space. It seems **fear**
>> and **an adult** as somethings offer faces in the cloud that are examples
>> of modelling phenomena. This no longer privileges **an adult** as more
>> central than **fear** as phenomena modelled.
>>
>> Or so it seems?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Windows 10 phone
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Beth Ferholt <bferholt@gmail.com>
>> *Sent: *February 8, 2017 8:48 AM
>> *To: *laure.kloetzer@gmail.com; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
>>
>> *Subject: *[Xmca-l] Re: Gunilla's 1996 paper
>>
>>
>>
>> Let Monica and I know if there are others you are looking for, Laura, and
>>
>> maybe this is helpful? She wrote several things that should be read more
>>
>> than they are! Or more should be translated... Beth
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Laure Kloetzer <laure.kloetzer@gmail.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dear Brian,
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Thank you so much for sharing ! Very interesting for me indeed.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> I decided to work on play with my students this semester as it is a
>>
>>> wonderful and engaging entry into a lot of fascinating dimensions of
>>
>>> learning & culture. I also plan to make them work on classical works by
>>
>>> Piaget and Vygotsky, and help them test the hypotheses of these authors
>> on
>>
>>> real observations of play.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Best,
>>
>>> LK
>>
>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>>
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>>> 2017-02-07 19:05 GMT+01:00 Edmiston, Brian W. <edmiston.1@osu.edu>:
>>
>>>
>>
>>>> Thanks so much, Alfredo
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> Laure, you might be interested in this chapter of mine in which I build
>>
>>> on
>>
>>>> Lindqvist’s work
>>
>>>> It's coming out in the new Routledge Handbook of Early Childhood Play
>>
>>>> (I know Beth has a chapter in there too)
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> Brian Edmiston
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>>> On 7 Feb 2017, at 11:37 am, Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>
>>
>>>> wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> I see. Here is the article! I think this time is right.
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> Alfredo
>>
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>
>>>>> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.
>> edu
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> on behalf of Alfredo Jornet Gil <a.j.gil@iped.uio.no>
>>
>>>>> Sent: 07 February 2017 17:18
>>
>>>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity; laure.kloetzer@gmail.com
>>
>>>>> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Gunilla's 1996 paper
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> Hi Laure,
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> I find this online. not the best copy, but one available. See if you
>>
>>> can
>>
>>>> download it (it's 3MB big, can make it smaller and share if you could
>> not
>>
>>>> download)
>>
>>>>> http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED396824.pdf
>>
>>>>> Hope it helps,
>>
>>>>> Alfredo
>>
>>>>> ________________________________________
>>
>>>>> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.
>> edu
>>
>>>>
>>
>>>> on behalf of Laure Kloetzer <laure.kloetzer@gmail.com>
>>
>>>>> Sent: 07 February 2017 17:01
>>
>>>>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>>
>>>>> Subject: [Xmca-l] Gunilla's 1996 paper
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> After a desperate search for Gunilla's classical paper in my Swiss
>>
>>>>> libraries, I am asking the community for some help. Would one of you
>>
>>>> have a
>>
>>>>> pdf copy of:
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> Lindqvist, G. (1996). The aesthetics of play. A didactic study of
>> play
>>
>>>> and
>>
>>>>> culture in preschools. *Early Years*, *17*(1), 6-11.
>>
>>>>>
>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot for your help !
>>
>>>>> Best regards
>>
>>>>> LK
>>
>>>>> <Linqvist 1996 The aesthetics of play Early years.pdf>
>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> --
>>
>> Beth Ferholt
>>
>> Assistant Professor
>>
>> Department of Early Childhood and Art Education
>>
>> Brooklyn College, City University of New York
>>
>> 2900 Bedford Avenue
>>
>> Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889
>>
>>
>>
>> Email: bferholt@brooklyn.cuny.edu
>>
>> Phone: (718) 951-5205
>>
>> Fax: (718) 951-4816
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Beth Ferholt
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Early Childhood and Art Education
> Brooklyn College, City University of New York
> 2900 Bedford Avenue
> Brooklyn, NY 11210-2889
>
> Email: bferholt@brooklyn.cuny.edu
> Phone: (718) 951-5205
> Fax: (718) 951-4816
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