Well, Geoffry Sax addresses exactly this issue - "why
children who cannot do 6-2=4 know that if they have $6 and lose $2 then
they have $4 left?" and very much in the Vygotskian tradition. See his
Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in Mathematical Undertstanding.
Or did you mean something else?
Anna
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From: Andy Blunden [mailto:andy@mira.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 5:59 AM
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
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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