Yaroshensky was actually referring to how Vygotsky saw development as a
stage. His argument was in Vygotsky's view personality was not a priori,
but came out of the dialectical interaction between the individual and
society. In this sense life was a stage which consisted of two planes; the
interpsychical and intrapsychical. Below are some comments from Versov that
might be useful.
Comments from Nikolai Veresov
Why Vygotsky used the word "stage" this is not a metaphor as many people
think. The task of Vygotsky in 1930-1931 was to create the psychology in
terms of drama. The stage is the place the dramatic development takes
place. The stage (theatre) has two planes - social plane (dimension) and
individual plane. The planes only make sense relative to the stage and they
are connected as two projections of the stage where the child is not a
spectator, but participant.
Category is the philosophical concept. How can one imagine that the
function exists as a category? Sounds strange, but according to
Stanislavsky (famous theatre director Vygotsky used to know) and Sergey
Eisenshtein (filmmaker and a friend of Vygotsky) "category" in the drama
means "collision", "event", dramatic unit, and the unit of analysis of
drama: it might be a dialogue (mostly) or emotional explosion and so on.
Vygotsky is speaking about development as a process of events, collisions
and their reflections in both planes.
Nate
Nate Schmolze
http://www.geocities.com/~nschmolze/
schmolze who-is-at students.wisc.edu
People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds,
People who possess strong feelings even people with great minds
and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls
L.S. Vygotsky
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From: <MDLedoux who-is-at aol.com>
To: <xmca who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 1999 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: Life as a ZPD
> XMCA collegues:
>
> I have been rather timid in posting my question, since I am newly
entering
> this world and my Vygotskian background is limited. In my reading the ZPD
> tends to be limited to a particular time frame (variously defined). In
> February (23) Nate Schmolze referred to Yaroshensky as believing that
> devlopmental stages were continually restructuring.
>
> Has anyone spoken of life itself as one large ZPD with other ZPD within
or am
> I carrying this too far?
>
> Michael
>
> IDPEL
> School of Education
> Duquesne University
>