Re: [xmca] Kindergarten as Activity System

great! no access here to such journal! anybody can share?

On May 30, 2007, at 5:18 PM, White, Phillip wrote:

> not Montessori; perhaps a close second:
>
> "Reggio Emilia as cultural activity theory in practice" - Rebecca
> S. New - Theory Into Practice, 46(1), 5-13.
>
> phillip
>
> Phillip A. White, Lecturer
> University of Colorado at Denver, Health Sciences Center
> School of Education, Human Development
> Teacher Education
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf of David Preiss
> Sent: Wed 5/30/2007 1:10 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Kindergarten as Activity System
>
>
>
> As we talk about it, I would love references about connections
> between Montessori and CHAT as well.
> david
>
> On May 30, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Anton Yasnitsky wrote:
>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> we are presently starting a research on, roughly,
>> voluntary behaviour development in preschoolers
>> in Kindergarten settings. So, I wondering if
>> anybody is aware of any research done on
>> Kindergarten (child day care center) as an
>> Activity system, from any research perspective. I
>> believe there is a lot of literature on this out
>> there, but this is a fairly new topic to me, so
>> -- any help will be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anton.
>>
>> --- Paula Towsey <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Mike and Anton
>>>
>>> Although Vygotsky maintains that solving the
>>> problem of the blocks isn't
>>> dependent on 'previous experience or knowledge'
>>> (T&L, 1986, pp.97-98), I
>>> found that there are other elements of a
>>> school-like nature that Vygotsky
>>> apparently did not discuss in Chapter Five of
>>> T&L. His introduction to this
>>> (finely crafted and delicate) instrument starts
>>> along these lines:
>>>
>>> "The functional method of double stimulation in
>>> the study of concept
>>> formation begins by introducing nonsense words
>>> that from the beginning have
>>> no meaning for the subject. According to
>>> Vygotsky, the introduction of
>>> nonsense words was adapted from Ach's (1921)
>>> use of nonsense words in his
>>> experimental procedures. These nonsense words
>>> are artificial concepts that
>>> actually mean a combination of characteristics,
>>> of real attributes, but "for
>>> which no ready concept and word exist" in the
>>> given language (1986, p. 97).
>>> This experimental method is designed to reveal
>>> the processes involved in the
>>> subject's coming to understand the nonsense
>>> words and, at the same time, to
>>> reveal the development of these concepts. The
>>> procedure can be used with
>>> adults and children because solving the problem
>>> doesn't depend on or
>>> presuppose prior experience or knowledge of the
>>> words and concepts in the
>>> experiment: the experiment doesn't use 'tall',
>>> 'short', 'large' or 'small'
>>> on their own, but combines these into new
>>> relationships exemplified in the
>>> words cev, bik, mur, and lag." (Towsey, 2007,
>>> p.58)
>>>
>>> For your interest, I've attached my discussion
>>> of the three-year-olds'
>>> responses to the blocks - the 'hidden
>>> curriculum' seemed to be preparing
>>> these children well for a rote-style approach
>>> to education!
>>>
>>> Paula
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
>>> [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
>>> Behalf Of Anton Yasnitsky
>>> Sent: 30 May 2007 08:18 AM
>>> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu; eXtended Mind,
>>> Culture, Activity
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: The functional method
>>> of double stimulation - and
>>> somephotographs
>>>
>>> Just in case: we are meeting with our Ukrainian
>>> team in a couple of days and are open to any
>>> research initiative of this kind. A good
>>> starting
>>> point for a cross-cultural project, eh :)?
>>>
>>>
>>> --- Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Might some kind of collective, distributed
>>>> effort at conducting a small
>>>> study using these materials
>>>> be of interest to XMCA folks?
>>>> mike
>>>>
>>>> On 5/29/07, Carol Macdonald
>>>> <carolmacdon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> P
>>>>> Great to get this. I tried at the weekend
>>> to
>>>> see how you were, but you
>>>>> were
>>>>> out.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am about to contact Nicoleen for the 2nd
>>>> time, and will let you know
>>>>> directly I hear something.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jaki's results are back--with 16 pages of
>>>> corrections. But at least they
>>>>> are finally back from the second examiner.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am now drowning in work on four projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thursday I am to have a two hour meeting
>>>> with the Kellogg Foundation
>>>>> about the bibliotherapy project proposal.
>>>> Wish me luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> Rush, rush
>>>>> Love
>>>>> C
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29/05/07, Paula Towsey
>>>> <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Ana
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for your suggestion that I
>>>> forward this email to the
>>>>> group. The
>>>>>> blocks I used for my cross-sectional
>>> study
>>>> were made by Stoelting Co.
>>>>>> (USA),
>>>>>> according to the specs. provided by Jacob
>>>> Kasanin and Eugenia Hanfmann
>>>>>> (+/-1936/37).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My research exercise, 'In Search of
>>>> Vygotsky's Blocks: exploring cev,
>>>>> bik,
>>>>>> mur, and lag in South Africa', was
>>>> conducted for my M. Ed. (Psychology
>>>>> in
>>>>>> Education) by course work and research
>>>> report at Wits University.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: Paula Towsey
>>>> [mailto:paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za]
>>>>>> Sent: 28 May 2007 04:47 PM
>>>>>> To: 'ana@zmajcenter.org'
>>>>>> Subject: The functional method of double
>>>> stimulation - and some
>>>>>> photographs
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Ana
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> To introduce myself: my name is Paula
>>>> Towsey and I followed, with a
>>>>> great
>>>>>> deal of interest, some of your
>>> conversation
>>>> about the method of double
>>>>>> stimulation - Vygotsky's Blocks - on the
>>>> XMCA in March. I conducted
>>>>>> research with this method last year but
>>>> wasn't able to join in with your
>>>>>> conversation because I wasn't on the XMCA
>>>> mailing list in March. I am
>>>>> now
>>>>>> -
>>>>>> but am writing to you separately because
>>>> the topic is no longer current
>>>>> on
>>>>>> XMCA. I do hope that by writing to you
>>>> directly I'm not breaking any
>>>>> XMCA
>>>>>> protocols!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In reading between the lines, Ana, it
>>> seems
>>>> to me that the pathway you
>>>>>> followed with the method of approach with
>>>> the blocks at the University
>>>>> of
>>>>>> Belgrade was more directly linked - for
>>>> historical and geographical
>>>>>> reasons,
>>>>>> perhaps - in source to Sakharov's
>>> approach.
>>>> The sources I was most
>>>>> easily
>>>>>> able to find flowed mainly through
>>> Hanfmann
>>>> and Kasanin via Kozulin's
>>>>>> translation of Thought and Language
>>> (1986):
>>>> suffice it to say here
>>>>> (though
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> can send you more) that I noticed a
>>>
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