[Xmca-l] Re: Volume One of Pedology of the Adolescent Published in Korean

[mike cole]

Congratulions to you and your team, David. We all look forward to an
English edition.

All those issues good for discussion.
Where does the text on
Pedology  fit in the instrumental— functional systems- perezhivanie
Sequencing of his phases of theorizing?

Mike

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 6:00 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:

> The Seoul Vygotsky Community is proud to announce the publication of the
> first volume of  Vygotsky's "Pedology of the Adolescent" in Korean (see
> link below). Some of this material has been circulated on our list, but it
> has never actually been published in any language except Russian.
>
> Like the upcoming publication of Vygotsky's pedological work in French
> (and, eventually, in English), I think the material speaks for its own
> importance in theory and in methodology. But I also think it addresses (at
> least) three practical questions which keep coming up on this list.
>
> a) How can a Zoped be measured in years? The Binet tasks are utterly
> inadequate for this purpose, as Thorndike, Vygotsky, and even Binet said at
> the time. So we need neoformations that are observable in the data of
> everyday life, e.g. language. The first chapter of this volume, never
> published in Engliish, gives these for the Crisis at Thirteen.
>
> b) What does the child think with before the child is thinking with
> concepts? In Thinking and Speech, the chapter on concept formation in
> adolescence is actually placed BEFORE the chapter on preconcept formation
> in elementary school. The chapters in this volume on the role of emotion as
> a "sputnik" of development not only explain how the adolescent is thinking
> during concept formation but also why.
>
> c) What is the status of the phrase "psychological tools"? Vygotsky
> himself uses it at one point. Then he criticizes it and says that people
> who use this are simply handwaving. This material was written at exactly
> the point in his thinking he made that criticism, and...he does not use it.
> Instead, he uses the idea of "semanticization" in order to describe the
> "intro-volution" of structures.
>
> This volume has important things to add on all of these issues, but it's
> actually little more than the kind of preamble we find in the first five
> chapters of HDHMF or the first four chapters we find in T&S. In the next
> volume, which we are working on right now, Vygotsky says that the last
> great critical period of childhood is the product of the "non-coincidence"
> of general anatomical growth, sexual maturation, and socio-cultural
> maturity. Growth goes on a bit later (thanks to diet), puberty happens
> earlier and earlier (ditto), but the child's ability to reproduce his or
> her own labor and that of a family seems to be endlessly put off by our
> culture.
>
> David Kellogg
> Sangmyung University
>
> New Book with the Seoul Vygotsky Community
>
> Volume 1 of "Pedology of the Adolescent", 분열과 사랑 (in the Korean language)
>
> http://www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ItemId=148240197
>
>
-- 
A man's mind-what there is of it- has always the advantage of being
masculine, - as the smallest birch-tree is of a higher kind than the most
soaring palm, - and even his ignorance is of a sounder quality.
---George Eliot
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