There should be, if my vague recollections are true, Italian, Danish,
perhaps also Finnish work in the area of property/ concepts of economy.
Sorry for not being more precisely informed, there SHOULD be others around
here with a longer standing in the CHAT community who would know -- don't
know what kind of gremlins and glitches keep them from answering the
question.
Eva
>Andy,
>
>This question is similar to one I asked some time ago as to whether there
>had been any studies of children's acquisition of concepts of property. At
>that time I received no responses. Carl Ratner told me personally that he
>doesn't know of any either. It would seem that money, as a form of exchange
>value which presupposes the existence of some concept of property would fall
>into this category but who knows. I'm anxious to see what response there is
>to your query.
>
>Paul H. Dillon
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Andy Blunden <andy@mira.net>
>To: <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 2:59 AM
>Subject: Activity and Money
>
>
>> Does anyone know of a work in the Vygotsky School which deals with money?
>>
>> For example, has any maths teacher in the CHAT tradition discussed why
>> children who cannot do 6-2=4 know that if they have $6 and lose $2 then
>> they have $4 left? Has anyone studied the development in a child of the
>> idea that labour should be exchanged? of the concept of value? of why
>> wage-slavery is more respectable than domestic servitude but less
>> prestigious than exploiting others?
>>
>> There's a lot of material about knowledge, but has anyone in the Vygotsky
>> school talked about ethics?
>>
>> Andy
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