Bill,
I don't think that you can pose the question like that: development is
first on the social plane and than on the individual. Don't forget that for
Vygotsky individual development is MEDIATED by the socially produced TOOLS
(of communication and material technologies). Individual and social are not
separate but always in interaction as two aspects of the same process or
two inseparable parts of one and the same machine. If you want to use a
modern day metaphor: maybe you can say that the development of computer
hardware is driven by the development of computer software and the other
way around. (it is just a very rough metaphor I admit).
If you can characterize Vygotsky's thinking into a definite method of
thinking, than it is not a determinism at al - it is dialectical thinking.
At 03:58 PM 1/24/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Folks,
>
>Many of you have probably discussed this before, so I'm turning to you as sort
>of brain-trust. Vygotsky saw development occuring on the social plane, before
>that on an individual plane == then is his work an enviromental determinism?
>
>Thanks in advance for any comments and refernces in this direction.
>
>
>
>=====
>Bill Barowy
>
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