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>In the 1931-32 a group of Vygotsky's students, Leontiev, Zaporozhets and
>others, left Moscow and established a research center in Kharkov, Ukrain
>which became known as the Kharkovite school (Kozulin 1990). Their research
>elaborated Vygotsky's ideas in two directions; study and design of age
>specific leading activities (play, learning etc.), and study of goal
>directed activities (reading, sensory standards etc.) (Kozulin 1990). As
>Veresov mentions Russia has two words for activity one coming from the
>German tradition in which Leontiev relied upon and Vygotsky's use of
>activity as in Dorthy's quote which was more Pavlovian in orgin.
>Psychological activity then would be similar to the type of research Venger
>did with perception type of activities (sensory standards), which we would
>probally consider behaviorist.
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>Nate
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