[Xmca-l] Re: activity and Davydov

[mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Huw and Others-- Could you provide pdf's or url's for Davydov? If you do
not have them, I can get access, I believe, to the large part of one of his
book on developmental education. I also recommend the work of Jean
Schmittau.

I am pretty sure that VVD would not attribute stability of the object to
the problems presented by the teacher, but to the constraints provided by
the conceptual core of the germ cell. What does Yrjo write on this topic?
He uses VVD a lot.
mike


On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>wrote:

> Davydov's use of activity seems to be used in a way whereby the object of
> activity is held constant (e.g. quantity in Problems of Developmental
> Instruction, pp. 147-154).
>
> I don't recall reading Davydov explaining this however.  My inference is
> that it is the problems (contradictions) presented by the teacher that
> establish this constant basis of activity, i.e. that the object of the
> activity is given in terms of the problem.
>
> Has this been documented anywhere?
>
> Thanks,
> Huw
>