Re: [xmca] zpd zbr zedpd and zoped

[Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>]

I'll respond to your question about the meaning of "ur," Steve.

"Ur-" is a prefix that is used in German, actually. It has been around 
since the year dot in German, but it has become a bit of a fad recently 
for English speakers.
Ur- is a prefix which means original or prototypical. I mostlly know it 
from Goethe's idea of /Urphaenomen/ which is the original of Vygotsky's 
"unit of analysis", should I say, the Urunit? This is because of 
Goethe/Hegel/Marx/Vygotsky's idea that in order to understand some 
complex process as a whole (i.e. a /Gestalt/) then you have to begin 
with the simplest unit of it, it's germ or cell. So the reference is to 
an (artefact-mediated) action as the ur- of psychology and cultivated 
human life.

Does that help, Steve?

Andy


Steve Gabosch wrote:
> ... "Generalizing Dual Stimulation.
> * The ur characteristic of higher psychologically (culturally 
> mediated) human action is that it operates indirectly, through the 
> environment.
> * DS method is the ur model of human action incorporates the 
> environment as tools for action.  But it must be generalized into 
> group as well as individual circumstances."
>
> Mike urges the non-Russians at the conference to ask their fellow 
> Russian attendees what 'ur' means.
>
> So - to our fellow Russian speakers - what does 'ur' mean in Mike's 
> slide?

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