[Xmca-l] Re: Passions, (Projects?) and Interests

[Moises Esteban-Guitart]

That's an interesting question that I asked myself when I read EDUCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY by Vygotsky "from one interest of the child’s to a new interest
—that is the rule” (Vygotsky, 1926/1997a, p. 86). My conclusion was that
it depends on the biographical moment (see pp. 393 to 396 document
attached). By the way, in his "Educational Psychology" he wrote on sex too
("Education on the sex instinct", pp. 71-77), however I didn't explore
this.
m

> David,
>
> I would imagine the reference to interest relates to the STUDENTS'
> interest: meaning that whatever way it is approached it needs to be
> introduced from and in relation to the students' current
> knowledge/interest/developmental stage as opposed to being imposed in a
> decontextualised way.
>
> At least I think that's what's going on here...
>
> Julie
>
>
>
>
>> Sorry, Rob. I mean fifteen hours a year. The government has itinerant
>> specialists who lecture from school to school. There is even a bus for
>> visiting the provinces.
>>
>> In contrast, Vygotsky says:
>>
>> a) No class with ONLY sex education--since anatomical, sexual, and
>> sociocultural maturation do not coincide in modern humans, sex education
>> is
>> not a science of a natural whole, where the object of study is given to
>> us.
>>
>> b) No classes WITHOUT sex education--since sex education is simply
>> learning
>> how to be with people who may be of sexual interest, all classes must
>> have
>> some form of sexual "enlightenment".
>>
>> c) No sex education without INTEREST. But what, exactly, is interest?
>>
>> David Kellogg
>> Sangmyung University
>>
>> New in *Language and Literature*, co-authored with Fang Li:
>> Mountains in labour: Eliot’s ‘Atrocities’ and Woolf’s
>> alternatives
>> Show all authors
>>
>> https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947018805660
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 5:40 PM robsub@ariadne.org.uk
>> <robsub@ariadne.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Fifteen hours a week???
>>>
>>> I hope it's not all practicals - the teachers would be exhausted.
>>>
>>> In the UK nowadays the very inadequate thing we do in schools is called
>>> Sex and Relationship Education. The "and Relationship" bit was tacked
>>> on
>>> some time in the 90s or maybe early 2000s, if I recall rightly. They
>>> missed
>>> a trick there - they should have put it the other way round
>>> "Relationship
>>> and Sex Education". A very large lump of the population go into a
>>> tabloid
>>> induced panic as soon as they hear the word "sex", especially when
>>> related
>>> to children, and then fail to hear the "and relationship" it.
>>>
>>> Rob
>>>
>>> On 11/01/2019 07:14, David Kellogg wrote:
>>>
>>> Last July in Geneva, I got into a bit of a tiff with my hosts over
>>> whether
>>> or not Vygotsky had a theory of emotion. The commonplace position,
>>> taken
>>> by
>>> almost all high Vygotskyans including my francophone friends, is that
>>> Vygotsky spent too much of his life developing a theory of thinking and
>>> intellect, complexes and concept formation, and when he turned his
>>> attention to the lower and higher emotions, that dark side of the moon,
>>> it
>>> was too late. He worked out a kind of prolegomena, in the form of
>>> "Teaching
>>> on the Emotions" (or "Study of the Emotions" or perhaps "The Doctrine
>>> of
>>> the Emotions"--you can read what he did in Volume 6 of the Collected
>>> Works). And the rest was silence.
>>>
>>> Here in Korea we are bringing out our tenth volume of Vygotsky's works
>>> (see attached cover, with blurbs from Renee Van der Veer and Irina
>>> Leopoldoff-Martin). It's all about sex education, which is a very
>>> important
>>> topic here in Korea, because we have fifteen hours of sex education a
>>> week
>>> mandated by the government, but the ministry of education has more or
>>> less
>>> withdrawn the downloadable materials for this, not for the usual
>>> reasons
>>> but instead because of criticism from Human Rights Watch (it is
>>> terribly
>>> sexist, homophobic, and just plain ignorant).
>>>
>>> Vygosky's view is that sex education (which he calls "sexual
>>> enlightenment") has to be integrated into ALL subjects (so for example
>>> the
>>> test of a good sex enlightenment programme would be one that ensures
>>> equal
>>> participation of boys and girls in math and physics), it has to start
>>> as
>>> soon as preschoolers enter primary school, and it has to be
>>> INTERESTING.
>>> In
>>> other words, instead of the "sex education without sex" programme we
>>> have
>>> here in South Korea, we need non-sex education...but with a good deal
>>> of
>>> sex.
>>>
>>> All of which has got me thinking about the problem my Geneva friends
>>> set
>>> before me. I think that Vygotsky really DOES have a theory that unites
>>> passions and interests. It's like that book by Hirschmann on how the
>>> unity
>>> of passion and interest gave rise to capitalism, but instead it is all
>>> about how passions, shared projects, and interests give rise to sexual
>>> love, and it is more or less right before we would expect to find it:
>>> in
>>> the Pedology of the Adolescent, right before the chapter on concept
>>> formation, which shows how complexes (which are categories for others)
>>> become concepts (categories for themselves). This is the chapter on
>>> interests, which explains how passions (which are sensations in
>>> themselves)
>>> become interests: that is, emotions for themselves. (There is already a
>>> passable translation of this in Volume Five of the CW). The only thing
>>> is
>>> there is a need for a transitional form--a feeling with others. Andy's
>>> idea
>>> of the Project?
>>>
>>> David Kellogg
>>> Sangmyung University
>>>
>>> New in *Language and Literature*, co-authored with Fang Li:
>>> Mountains in labour: Eliot’s ‘Atrocities’ and Woolf’s
>>> alternatives
>>> Show all authors
>>>
>>> https://doi.org/10.1177/0963947018805660
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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> Dra. Julie Waddington
> Departament de Didàctiques Específiques
> Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia
> Universitat de Girona
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Moisès Esteban Guitart
Dpt de psicologia
Director - Institut de Recerca Educativa -
Facultat d'Educació i Psicologia
Universitat de Girona

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