RE: [xmca] a Russian noun

[Achilles Delari Junior <achilles_delari@hotmail.com>]

Sure, sure. There is not disagreement...

Unhappily in Portuguese there is only one word to unity and unit... then we have many problems in translate Vygotsky, because many times he is talking about "consciouness unity", and some times about "units of consciousness". I only discover this very recently... Then I did not check in English, but of course you will have no problem with this matter. I forget.

Well, yes "unit can not be further decomposed without lost the whole characteristics" is what I was trying to say. But "elements" in Vygotsky discussion are not only the result of decomposition of units (molecules) in its parts (atoms)... Even a "complex unity" ("molar" one?) can be decomposed into "simple units" OR into "elements"... Elements stay not only at the "third degree" of division of a whole...   Vygotsky talk about the "complex unity" decomposed into "simple units"... Maybe I can give a sample. It is that, at another place, a psychological process as "attention" is not viewed not as a "unit" for consciousness but as an "element"... etc. (again "The crisis of seven years"). This element demand other elements to compose a consciousness unit... But "perezhivanie" is a true dynamic unit of consciousness... (The crisis of seven years) - what we can understand as the statement that within a perezhivanie there are all the necessary elements integrated for a conscious process. Then this concept of "element" in the case of a relatively complex process as "attention" seems to be not so "atomic", as well... I guess Vygotsky was not so concerned in use words ever exactly in the same meaning (something, of course, very difficult to be done at any human discursive act), but he deals with metaphors... Of course, this do not means that there is not present a general approach implied in the molecule metaphor... A molecule can be decomposed, yes. But not without lost the whole properties... Even so, some things that maybe could be viewed "ontologically" as "molecular" as an attentional process, methodologically is not an unit, but an element of consciousness - therefore the analogy can not be taken in a much strict sense.

Achilles.  


> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:53:51 +1000
> From: ablunden@mira.net
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> Subject: Re: [xmca] a Russian noun
> 
> I speak only of "unit" (as opposed to element) here, 
> Achilles. Unity is something else, in fact unity implies a 
> distinction!
> 
> As to decomposition, that can be an ambiguous question. The 
> molecule can be further decomposed, into atoms, but only 
> molecules are the units of physical chemistry, not atoms. 
> Vygotsky says the unit cannot be further decomposed, and I 
> agree with him in the above sense.
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> 
> Achilles Delari Junior wrote:
> > Sorry, is very difficult to talk about this questions (because I am not English speaker), but was not "it was the 'only one' (definite)" but "it was NOT the 'only one' (definite)" when I was trying to talk about articles uses with the Portuguese correspondent to English "experience"... 
> > Achilles.
> > 
> > From: achilles_delari@hotmail.com
> > To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> > Subject: RE: [xmca] a Russian noun
> > Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:26:08 +0000
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > Thank you, Andy,
> > 
> > I wonder I understood better now.
> > 
> > In Portuguese is not the same. If I translate "uma unidade" (an unit, maybe) this can means "one unit among others", but if I translate "a unidade" (the unit), this will sounds as "the only one unit". We here call "definite article" (o/a; os/as) or "indefinite article" (um/uma, uns/umas), and I understand this is not the same distinction contable/uncontable, perhaps in portugues this "uncontable", occurs without articles. For us "experiência" ("experience") could be a general concept, uncontable, but we can say "Eu tive uma boa experiência" (I had a good experience?) = a contable... it was singular, for instance "to stay at Foz do Iguaçu Falls with family in last summer" - this was "uma boa experiência" (a good experience), it was the "only one" (definite), but seems to be "contable"... 
> > 
> > We have another problem here in Brazil, because from Russian to Portuguese, at least two different words can be translated as "experiência" (experience) = "perezhivanie", but also "opit". A Russian friend of mine, understand the all perezhivanie are opit, but not all opit are perezhivanie... Maybe for English this could be considered too... Perezhivanie in some aspects can be broader than your English "experience", but in other aspects your English "experience" can be broader than "perezhivanie" too... - "Broader" in "generalization degree", but not necessarily in "semantic field" and/or "objectal references" ("concrete contend") - if you use Vygotsky's terms from chapter 6 (Though an language) to the "system of coordinates" of a concept... But I guess some indistinction in translate equally "perezhivanie" and "opit" as "experience" in English and "experiência" in Portugueses, causes some problems too... Beyond this, sometimes you will find "perezhivanie" translated only
>  as  "emotion" too... what for me is not very appropriate...
> > 
> > But your question is different and I understand more philosophical, deeper question than my observations. Because if "Expecience is a unity of consciousness" can not have sense in English, maybe another word but "experience" must be used, because "perezhivanie" is a unit [edinitsa] of consciousness for LSV. There is also a difference between "unit" (edinitsa) and "unity" (edinstvo) in Vygotsky... what is very interesting too, because you can decompose a "unity" (edinstvo) into "units" (edinitsi) or in "elements" (this is what Vygotsky do not want to do), but a "unit" can not be decomposed more, a unit is un-decomposable dynamic reality... "Perezhivanie" is a methodological unit (edinitsa) for understand the whole consciousness "unity" (edinstvo). Somewhere in Vygotsky's texts I found "edinstvo" as "complex unity", and edinitsa as "simple unit"... I guess I can localize in English if could be usefu. But I saw only in Russian/Spanish-Portuguese, until now.
> > 
> > Achilles.
> > 
> >> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:42:15 +1000
> >> From: ablunden@mira.net
> >> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >> Subject: Re: [xmca] a Russian noun
> >>
> >> Yes, I knew that articles were alien to the Russian language 
> >> Achilles, but as you know, when a thought is translated into 
> >> English, the problem arises and has to be resolved 
> >> correctly, otherwise meaning is lost or distorted.
> >>
> >> "Word meaning is a unit" doesn't have an article either, but 
> >> the meaning is clear nonetheless because words are discrete 
> >> entities in any case. "audio stream meaning" would be 
> >> something quite different from "word meaning" for example.
> >>
> >> "Experience is a unit" is senseless in English, because 
> >> "experience" (same "emotional experience" or "lived 
> >> experience") when used without the article, in English, is a 
> >> mass noun, like "life" or "presence"; "experience" is not a 
> >> unit; "episode" or "encounter" might be, but they take an 
> >> indefinite article normally. So the sentence fails to convey 
> >> the meaning. It sounds as if the claim is simply that 
> >> experience is the subject matter, because "unit" clashes 
> >> with "experience" and the reader's mind has to make some 
> >> kind of correction.
> >>
> >> The several overlapping translation problems around the word 
> >> perezhivanie, which have been the subject matter of a number 
> >> of xmca discussions, really compound one another, don't 
> >> they. I believe I understand the word and I believe there is 
> >> no satisfactory English equivalent, but the article should 
> >> be used in this context.
> >>
> >> Andy
> >>
> >>
> >> Achilles Delari Junior wrote:
> >>> See, Andy, 
> >>>
> >>> This is not only for "perezhivanie":
> >>>
> >>> "Grammar - Other: Russian has no articles. This causes significant problems because the whole concept of article use is alien to Russian learners of English, and the English article system itself is extremely complex."
> >>> http://esl.fis.edu/grammar/langdiff/russian.htm
> >>>
> >>> or
> >>>
> >>> "There are no definite or indefinite articles in the Russian language. The sense of a noun is determined from the context in which it appears. That said, there are some means of expressing whether a noun is definite or indefinite. They are:The use of a direct object in the genitive instead of the accusative in negation signifies that the noun is indefinite, compare: "Я не вижу книги" ("I don't see a book" or "I don't see any book") and "Я не вижу книгу" ("I don't see the book").The use of the numeral one sometimes signifies that the noun is indefinite, e.g.: "Почему ты так долго?" - "Да так, встретил одного друга, пришлось поговорить" ("Why did it take you so long?" - "You see, I met a friend and had to talk").Word order may also be used for this purpose, compare "В комнату вбежал мальчик" ("A boy rushed into the room") and "Мальчик вбежал в комнату
> " 
> >> ("The boy rushed into the room").The use of plural form instead of singular may signify that the noun is indefinite: "Вы купите это в магазинах." - "Вы купите это в магазине." ("You can buy this in a shop." lit. "...in shops" - "You can buy this in the shop.")"
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_grammar#Nouns
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Therefore, this not only about countable and uncountable, but even about "definite" and "indefinite" - When Vygotsky said, for instance, about "perezhivanie is consciousness unit" - in English as in Portuguese will not the same if you translate "perezhivanie is AN unit of consciousness", ou "perezhivanie is THE unity of consciousnness". Don't you agree? Since "word meaning" is also an unit of consciousness" I had prefered "perezhivanie is an unity...", for instance.
> >>>
> >>> Achilles.
> >>>
> >>>> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:27:24 +1000
> >>>> From: ablunden@mira.net
> >>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] a Russian noun
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks Bella. I think I asked this once before. I am getting 
> >>>> deja vu! Anyways, ambiguity does the trick.
> >>>>
> >>>> In the context of Vygotsky claiming that perezhivanie is a 
> >>>> unit, it is senseless if perezivanie is taken as a mass 
> >>>> noun, but makes perfect sense if it is taken as a countable 
> >>>> noun. So since if it is context-dependent, it is "an 
> >>>> experience." But it is never translated that way! And that's 
> >>>> what confused me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Andy
> >>>>
> >>>> Bella Kotik-Friedgut wrote:
> >>>>> You are right, Achilles: it depends on the context: if you speak about
> >>>>> perejyvanie as a psychological concept- experience, if about a
> >>>>> specific event- an experience.
> >>>>> Bella
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Achilles Delari Junior
> >>>>> <achilles_delari@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> There is no the gramatical class "article", in Russian... we must to translate in according to the context.Every words, not only "perezhivanie". Including "the psychology" an "a psychology". I have a Russian friend that speaks Portuguesetoo, and she have difficult in say "um" (a/an) or "o" (the)... But this is not a real answer to your question,Perhaps we/they can have "any way" to know. But certainly this will not be with an "article"...
> >>>>>> Please correct me, Bella, and all Russian people. Is a major translation problem, for me.
> >>>>>> Achilles
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:42:29 +1000
> >>>>>>> From: ablunden@mira.net
> >>>>>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>> Subject: [xmca] a Russian noun
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Dearest Russian speakers, is there any way of saying whether
> >>>>>>> "perezhivanie" is a mass noun or a countable noun? I.e., can
> >>>>>>> we have "an experience" or only "experience" as a
> >>>>>>> translation of perezhivanie?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Andy
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Achilles Delari Junior wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Wagner,
> >>>>>>>> In the text about "diagnostics" in Volume 5, Vigotski talks about development as"auto-conditioned" process.
> >>>>>>>> Because development is not a "marionete" (how do you say in English?) conductedneither by the line of heritage  neither the line of environment. I do not read thisas "idealistic" - just because are not the "inner" factors the determinant... I read as"dialectical" - development is the own movement - that is just the contradictory interconstitution heritage-enviroment - that is "self-propultioned"... Think only development as "history" - what can determine history that not the own history? Nature? God? For a materialistic point of view history can not be determined from bellow nor from above... Therefore history only can be an integral, contradictorywhole process that determine the conditions for itself. What more?
> >>>>>>>> This is my reading from this statement. Put it in a broader epistemological context.
> >>>>>>>> I can localize what I said in Spanish, English, and Russian, if could be useful for youhere.
> >>>>>>>> “a non-interrupted, auto-conditioned [somoobuslovlivaemyi[i]] process”
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> [i] “Самообусловливаемый процесс”.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> We can see even in "The crisis of seven years" that environment is not "external"to the child, because he/she is an active component constiting his own socialenvironment too...
> >>>>>>>> I understand this is at a proximal semantic field, close to your question.
> >>>>>>>> Best.
> >>>>>>>> Achilles.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:45:06 -0300
> >>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] animated zpd
> >>>>>>>>> From: mcfion@gmail.com
> >>>>>>>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Hello Achilles and group,
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> I want to know where Vygotsky points out that the students interest are
> >>>>>>>>> inherent? Isn't it a bit idealistic?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Something like that startled us in our  last group meetings:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> In this text "The Problem of Age" (
> >>>>>>>>> http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/1934/problem-age.htm - Thanks
> >>>>>>>>> Andy for the text) Vygotsky points out that:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> "(...) development is a continuous process of self-propulsion characterized
> >>>>>>>>> primarily by a continuous appearance and formation of the new which did not
> >>>>>>>>> exist at previous stages."
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> The "sef-propulsion" caught our attention... So is development an inherent
> >>>>>>>>> movement too?  Is this related to the accusations made by Leontiev of
> >>>>>>>>> Vygotsky being an idealist? If it is the social environment that promotes
> >>>>>>>>> the development, how can it be self-propelled?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> This development auto-propulsion has something to do with the ideas of
> >>>>>>>>> adaptation and evolution? Or has it something to do with the ideas of Engels
> >>>>>>>>> about the dialectic movement in nature?
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> And after reading some practical works based on Dewey and Engeström, i
> >>>>>>>>> though that the thinking of Dewey and Vygotsky were more close...
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Sorry if my questions and appointments seem silly, but i am trying to get a
> >>>>>>>>> better understanding about Vygotsky's theories, Dewey theories, and most of
> >>>>>>>>> all, how to apply it... And i need to study a lot more about philosophy...
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> Wagner
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Achilles Delari Junior <
> >>>>>>>>> achilles_delari@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> Vygotsky and Dewey:
> >>>>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytRBWCks830&feature=related
> >>>>>>>>>> :-)
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:36:11 -0700
> >>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] animated zpd
> >>>>>>>>>>> From: lchcmike@gmail.com
> >>>>>>>>>>> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>> CC: vjchuck@yahoo.com
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> Alexei-- What is your interpretation of the Youtube zoned out clip? You
> >>>>>>>>>> know
> >>>>>>>>>>> the context better than we do.
> >>>>>>>>>>> mike
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Achilles Delari Junior <
> >>>>>>>>>>> achilles_delari@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Yes Andy... sure.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Its only a little caricature... my feelings are very idiosyncratic, of
> >>>>>>>>>>>> course. Maybe only an inoffensive joke. But I feel a little confused
> >>>>>>>>>> because
> >>>>>>>>>>>> for a millisecond I understand that the clip's goal could be help
> >>>>>>>>>> somebody
> >>>>>>>>>>>> to learn about that concept... and not only to make a little joke. But
> >>>>>>>>>> this
> >>>>>>>>>>>> can be because my boundaries with English too - is not so easy for me
> >>>>>>>>>> to
> >>>>>>>>>>>> perceive when something is ironic or not, even in Portuguese... you can
> >>>>>>>>>>>> imagine in foreign languages. Even so, I preserve my considerations
> >>>>>>>>>> about
> >>>>>>>>>>>> the incongruence with a possible Vygotsky's aptitude with a child in
> >>>>>>>>>> real
> >>>>>>>>>>>> situations - more securely we can assume that there is no a vygotskian
> >>>>>>>>>>>> aptitude being represented...
> >>>>>>>>>>>> And yes Andy, you must to write, to create the clip. Even here we are
> >>>>>>>>>>>> writing, as well. And this is not equal when we are talking face to
> >>>>>>>>>> face...
> >>>>>>>>>>>> But is very different you write a script for actors in a play, and
> >>>>>>>>>> write a
> >>>>>>>>>>>> scientific article that will be only read by the distant interlocutor,
> >>>>>>>>>>>> without any image, as is the case of the transcription that they did in
> >>>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>>>>> clip from passages of the chapter six of Mind in Society.... =) This
> >>>>>>>>>> is, for
> >>>>>>>>>>>> me, one of the probable objective reasons because it sounds so
> >>>>>>>>>> artificial
> >>>>>>>>>>>> and potentially subject to be subjectively understood as some kind of
> >>>>>>>>>>>> "irony" - perhaps directed to hypothetical people that only read
> >>>>>>>>>> something
> >>>>>>>>>>>> and literally repeat - not necessarily for better understanding about
> >>>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>>>>> matter... But if one not know for who this message is actually
> >>>>>>>>>> directed,
> >>>>>>>>>>>> some ambivalent meanings/feelings can be send/received... This can be
> >>>>>>>>>>>> because the own "emotional polisemy" included in language too, In my
> >>>>>>>>>> point
> >>>>>>>>>>>> of view...
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Well... all this was not for I comment here. I saw the clip since the
> >>>>>>>>>> first
> >>>>>>>>>>>> post, feel this things, and will not say nothing... But Denise's
> >>>>>>>>>>>> considerations make some sense too me, and then I wrote.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> All the best for you all, Andy, Denise and everybody.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Achilles.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> P.S. The tool can be very interesting to create more clips, with other
> >>>>>>>>>>>> voices too. I will enjoy to put Bakhtin talking to Michel Foucault for
> >>>>>>>>>>>> instance! I have already some possible talks.  Maybe with some
> >>>>>>>>>> traditional
> >>>>>>>>>>>> introductory narrator voice, only to explain the goals...
> >>>>>>>>>>>> =).......................
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:41:54 +1000
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> From: ablunden@mira.net
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> To:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] animated zpd
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> While I saw the clip as a somewhat crass interpretation of
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> ZPD, typical as Mike said, of those American interpretations
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> which the Russians so object to, I did not find it
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> disrespectful.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>      See    http://www.xtranormal.com/
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> This is the application the maker used. It is very simple.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Anyone can do it, and of course, as Achilles sensed, you
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> *write* a script, and enter stage directions from a menu,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> and it makes the video for you.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> I think the maker probably thought it would be a good
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> teaching tool for communicating what they saw as the basics
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> of Vygotsky. The pallette of tools is very limited.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Andy
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Achilles Delari Junior wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I agree in found something disrespectul too, perhaps not indented
> >>>>>>>>>>>> too...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> This feeling is translated in my mind as an understanding that the
> >>>>>>>>>> clip
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> seems to be some ironic/satiric. Because it shows certain
> >>>>>>>>>> artificiality
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> (if not to say a excessive artificiality) certainly not
> >>>>>>>>>> characteristic
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> in Vygotsky's relations with children - based in all narrative we
> >>>>>>>>>> have,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> including from his daughter Gita. There was also a text from 1931,
> >>>>>>>>>> that
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> we found in the Volume about Defectology from the Works, titled
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Diagnostic of the devellopment and paedological clinic of the
> >>>>>>>>>> dificult
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> childhood" (I'm puting in English from my Espanish version) - and
> >>>>>>>>>> there
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> we can saw a very sensitive concern from Vygotsky about he himself
> >>>>>>>>>> and
> >>>>>>>>>>>> a
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> psychiatry working with him, attending a little boy and his mother
> >>>>>>>>>> and
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> translating their experiencing in "thecnical" strange words, that
> >>>>>>>>>> could
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> not really help the mother to understand better the real situation.
> >>>>>>>>>>>> When
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the mother asked for them what that words was meaning, they only
> >>>>>>>>>> give
> >>>>>>>>>>>> to
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> her the same narrative that she just had exposed to them.
> >>>>>>>>>> Therefore,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vygotsky turns concerned that he himself and the doctor did not
> >>>>>>>>>> know
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> very well what was actually hapens with the child, and all the text
> >>>>>>>>>>>> will
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> work around the methodogical problems involved in this simple
> >>>>>>>>>>>> episode...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> I understand that such an aptidude described in the clip souns as a
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> little irony, and could be give us an oportunity to think about...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Perhaps they was tring to popularize some definitions. But the
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> definitions was practically literal quotes from wrote language...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Vygotsky had a critics about persons that talk almost as they was
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> writing... I can localize this too. Of course the clip have not the
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> intention to be realistic... I think this was a kind of comic
> >>>>>>>>>> irony...
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> if not very weel contextualized can sounds something disrespectful,
> >>>>>>>>>> I
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> have to assume, and I feel something in this way.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Achilles.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > From: dsnewnham@bluewin.ch
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > To: lchcmike@gmail.com; xmca@weber.ucsd.edu; ablunden@mira.net
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Subject: RE: [xmca] animated zpd
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:55:14 +0200
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > CC:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > This is not an academic remark but I found the clip
> >>>>>>>>>> disrespectful
> >>>>>>>>>>>> but
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > probably was not intended to be so... What would Vygotsky have
> >>>>>>>>>> said
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> to such
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > a thing...where the mind is in society today?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Denise
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Behalf Of mike cole
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Sent: 22 August 2010 03:49
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > To: ablunden@mira.net
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Cc: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Subject: Re: [xmca] animated zpd
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > Makes one pause to think when the children of your critics
> >>>>>>>>>> present
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> you with
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > a parody of their parents' ideas that they, presumably, take to
> >>>>>>>>>> be
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> the true
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > grit. The basis for their belief, it seems, is greater belief in
> >>>>>>>>>> the
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > American, oversimplified and linearized view of zones of most
> >>>>>>>>>>>> proximate
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > developmental transformations (e.g., the ZOMPDT). What must
> >>>>>>>>>> their
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> parents be
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > experiencing?
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > mike
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Andy Blunden <
> >>>>>>>>>> ablunden@mira.net>
> >>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > Yes, so it intrigued me that it was circulated by a Russian,
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> educated and
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > living in Moscow, etc., etc.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > Andy
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > mike cole wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> This is a wonderful representation of a large proportion of
> >>>>>>>>>>>> gripes
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> that
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> Russians have with non-Russian interpretations of the zoped,
> >>>>>>>>>>>> Andy.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> mike
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Andy Blunden
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>> <ablunden@mira.net<mailto:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> Found this via Alexey Melekhin's FaceBook page:
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS_Ftio1ops
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> andy
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> --
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu <mailto:xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > --
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > *Andy Blunden*
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/<http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/>
> >>>>>>>>>> <http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/><
> >>>>>>>>>>>> http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > > Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  >
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>  > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> *Andy Blunden*
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/<http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/><
> >>>>>>>>>> http://home.mira.net/%7Eandy/>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>>>>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>>>  _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>  _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>>> *Andy Blunden*
> >>>>>>> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> >>>>>>> Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> >>>>>>> Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
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> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>> -- 
> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>> *Andy Blunden*
> >>>> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> >>>> Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> >>>> Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> xmca mailing list
> >>>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >>>  		 	   		  
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> xmca mailing list
> >>> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >> -- 
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> *Andy Blunden*
> >> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> >> Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> >> Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> xmca mailing list
> >> xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> >> http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> >  		 	   		  
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca
> 
> -- 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Andy Blunden*
> Home Page: http://home.mira.net/~andy/
> Videos: http://vimeo.com/user3478333/videos
> Book: http://www.brill.nl/scss
> 
> 
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