RE: activity theory in the baltic countries?

From: Stetsenko, Anna (AStetsenko@gc.cuny.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 08:27:45 PDT


Hakarrainen is a good source. Perhaps even more directly informed should be Peter Tulviste who is in Tartu (Estonia) and certainly knows many people working in CHAT. He used to work in this approach himself, but maybe not so much any more (my impression).

Another person, less known, but also very knowledgeable is Gershon
Breslav, he is in Riga (but studied in Moscow, just as Tulviste). His E-mail seems to be: g-bresl who-is-at laima.acad.latnet.lu. He worked with Davydov, or at least in a similar direction.

All in all, CHAT might not be terribly popular in the baltic countries (including in Russia which belongs to this group too, by the way) -- as many people there are trying to catch up with what they perceive to be the cutting-edge approach in the West, but which de facto is the outdated cognitivist and positivist psychology.

A. Stetsenko



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