Child Psychology - Collected Works finishes Vygotsky's study on concepts. I
imagine they were not separated in Portuguese.
At 07:29 PM 10/16/2001 -0300, you wrote:
>"(...) I advocate IQ tests becasue it measures a clients ability to
>manipulate abstract concepts".
>Eric
>
>If you let me say a few words on the cotation of yours transcribed above...
>
>It is important to have in mind - and say - that there are two kinds of
>abstract concepts (everyday ones and social or scientific ones - at least
>according to Vygotsky in the complete version of Thinking and Speach,
>published in Portuguese under the title The construction of Thinking and
>Speach - I do not know what is the title of it in English). So, in my
>humble view, IQ tests are usefull only to "mesure" the level of scholl
>literacy of a subject or, in other words, to verify his competence in
>operatting formally with social or scientific concepts which ought to be
>taught in school (Cole and Scribner had yet depicted it). Therefore, I
>myself also have nothing against them - if, of course, we're interested
>just on knowing the level of school literacy of people.
>
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