RE: [xmca] zpd additional comment

[ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org]

Hello Michael:

What are your thoughts on the actual unit being analysed?  Like to know 
your thoughts on this.
eric




"michael" <mglevykh@telus.net>
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06/03/2009 09:00 PM
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Dear Ulvi and All (interested in ZPD),

 

While I agree that Chaiklin is "dead on in his analysis on [Vygotsky's]
ZPD," his analysis, in my humble opinion, is NOT "ALIVE" either. There is 
a
clear discrepancy in Chaiklin's (2003) interpretation of the ZPD. While he
asserts that "the main features of the analysis of zone of proximal
development [concern the] whole child" (p. 50), his account of the whole
child does not include explicit consideration of emotion. Yet, for 
Vygotsky,
affect is the beginning and the end of the child's entire psychological
development. Quoting Pistrak (reference unknown), Vygotsky (2004) stated
that "The convictions that we may inculcate in school through knowledge,
only grow roots in the child's psyche when these convictions are 
reinforced
emotionally" (p. 55).  Surely, when dealing with the development of the
whole child, it is of paramount importance (according to Vygotsky) not to
separate intellectual from emotional features of the child's development.

 

Michael G. Levykh, Ph.D.

 

 

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Subject: Re: [xmca] zpd

 

 

Many thanks

 

On 29/05/2009, ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org <ERIC.RAMBERG@spps.org> wrote:

> 

> Ulvi:

> 

> here is a link to a comprehesive analysis of this concept:

> 

> http://lchc.ucsd.edu/MCA/ZOPEDS/Chailklin.pdf

> 

> Seth Chaiklin I believe is dead on in his analysis.

> 

> eric

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