Re: [xmca] "higher psychic function"

[Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>]

On 13 February 2012 12:09, Bella Kotik-Friedgut <bella.kotik@gmail.com>wrote:

>  Dear Colette my off-list note returned rejected by your server, so:
>
>  I use "higher mental functions" or sometimes "higher psychological
> functions", but the first is preferable.
> --
> Sincerely yours Bella Kotik-Friedgut
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colette Murphy <c.a.murphy@qub.ac.uk
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear All
> > I'd be very interested to hear your views on how to edit/reword/rewrite
> > the phrase "higher psychic function" in relation to Vygotsky's CH theory
> so
> > that it be best read/understood/accepted by educationalists (more
> > specifically, science education researchers)?
>


Perhaps it would be better to use a term that pointed to the phenomena,
such as "Extension of psychological mediatory function".  "Higher" relates
the phenomena to other psychological theories but points away from the
phenomena -- one is left considering why one function is higher than
another whilst embedding the ideas in an (unnecessary) analogical framework
of "height = abstraction" or "higher as in high church" in which case one
is even further removed from a precise formulation using a metaphorical
frame.


> I'm happy to engage off-list
> > if this query is better treated that way.
>

This is clearly on-topic in many ways.

Kind regards,
Huw



> > Thanks a million
> > Colette
> >
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> > “Why is it, in spite of the fact that teaching by pouring in, learning by
> > passive absorption, are universally condemned, that they are still so
> > entrenched in practice?”
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