Just a few comments in this fascinating conversation because its either
very few, which I can manage, or very many (preceeded by more reading)
which I cannot.
1. The "free school" interpretation of Dewey is explicitly criticized by
Dewey himself in *Education and Experience* so it needs no less inquiry
than characterizations (characatures?) of LSV.
2. The book on Educational Psychology was written pretty early, before
formulation of the cultual-historical "resolution of the crisis in psychology"
which preoccupied Vygotsky, Luria, Leontiev and others in the late 1920's
and early 1930's (and later for the L&L, each in their own way).
This time issue is important because it was pre-Stalinist USSR and the
period of NEP and widespread experimentation in intellectual life.
3. The Mead connection is important for many reasons. Just one factoid of
relevance here. Mead got his Ph.D. in German with Dilthey. Dilthey was
both admired and criticized by cultural-historical psychologists and remains
a major figure in contemporary efforts to re-cover the intellectual roots
of current dicussions in cultural studies and social sciences around the
so-called "interpretive turn."
Gotta deal with overdue stuff.
mike
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