Re: originality

Isak D.Froumin (frumin who-is-at sc106.krasnoyarsk.su)
Tue, 10 Oct 1995 12:25:08 +0300 (MSK)

Jacues,
thank you for your mentioning of special significance of idea of
"psychological system".I guess that Vygotsky had in some sense "holistic
vision" . When we are trying to use some of his ideas separately we can lose
the basic sense. Especially it is important for such a holistic practice as
education. There is dangerous moment - sometime we make a long list of
different factors and(or) elements and consider that as a "whole". This
"mechanical" approach does not give us a sense of systemness.
Isak

>Hello Mike,
>I wanted to stress that the strenght of the cultural-historical
>'research program' should be found in the way Vygotsky and his
>followers conceptualized the complex structure of human mental
>activity by 'interdefining' such common notions as culture, history,
>mediation and activity in relation to socio- and ontogenesis.
>E.g., from 1930 onwards Vygotsky studied the interweaving of higher
>psychological functions into 'psychological systems.' Vygotsky stated
>that the course of socio- and ontogenesis is not so much determined
>by the changing structures of seperate functions (memory, learning,
>etc), but by the formation of new psychological systems that
>incorporate these functions. I think it is in this sense, that
>Vygotsky was highly original and ahead of his time.
>Jac
>
>

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