Re: [xmca] Interests and tendency during adolescence

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

The reporting of the approach to reading that Peg pioneered can be found at
lchc.

There is this early report of the project
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/Pubs/modelsystem-learning-difficulties.pdf,
another is
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/People/NEWTECHN.pdf


mike



On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> So you were directing their attention of a social problem, and hoping it
> would gain their interest?
> Andy
>
>
> Peg Griffin wrote:
>
>> Not adolescents, but latency age - third-4th graders.
>> We fiddled with tendency and growing interests a few decades ago. Some
>> kids
>> took the occasion we created to sneak behind our backs and steal the final
>> paragraph of a (slightly revised) current newspaper story.  We had read
>> the
>> first two parts collaboratively with them in small groups then "forced"
>> them
>> to take a break from reading (5th dimension activities or outdoor play
>> with
>> each other and big sibling undergrads).  Some texts were narratives of
>> news-worthy events (a boy accidentally hung himself) others were
>> expository
>> about contemporary science or technology development.  Most of the
>> children
>> had a history of not-reading - either at all or just copy-matching review
>> questions instead of active engagement with comprehension.  We left
>> print-outs of the full three paragraph texts stacked with other stuff we
>> brought to the site each day.  We chased the kids away from the text.
>>  Some
>> thievery succeeded, others showed interest in interrupting other
>> activities
>> to come back and read the full three part texts.
>> Tendency to interest with impetus (like the forbidden toy studies)?
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Andy Blunden
>> Sent: Friday, May 13, 2011 8:47 AM
>> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
>> Subject: [xmca] Interests and tendency during adolescence
>>
>> Is there anyone who has looked into this idea of "interest" in the
>> development of the adolescent? I have started reading Volume 5 of the LSV
>> CW
>> and the first chapter is very interesting. I have not come across exactly
>> this idea before. He says: "a transformation of tendency into interest is
>> the true key to the problem of the transitional age." His argumentation
>> leading to this conclusion rings very true, to my ears. Is there anyone on
>> the list who has worked further with this idea of "interest." So much of
>> this chapter is quotation of other authors, it is not 100% clear which
>> ideas
>> Vygotsky embraces. But it seems that upbringing shapes a person according
>> to
>> tendency (with habits etc.) but then the adolescent appropriates from
>> their
>> environment interests which form the basis of their adult personality, not
>> extinguishing the tendency acquired by upbringing, but distinct from it.
>>
>> Andy
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