Re: [xmca] Kindergarten as Activity System (Reggio Emilia paper)

I guess it is available online:
http://www.leaonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15430421tip4601_2

Anyway and just in case, see attached.

--- David Preiss <davidpreiss@uc.cl> wrote:

> great! no access here to such journal! anybody
> can share?
>
> On May 30, 2007, at 5:18 PM, White, Phillip
> wrote:
>
> > not Montessori; perhaps a close second:
> >
> > "Reggio Emilia as cultural activity theory in
> practice" - Rebecca
> > S. New - Theory Into Practice, 46(1), 5-13.
> >
> > phillip
> >
> > Phillip A. White, Lecturer
> > University of Colorado at Denver, Health
> Sciences Center
> > School of Education, Human Development
> > Teacher Education
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu on behalf
> of David Preiss
> > Sent: Wed 5/30/2007 1:10 PM
> > To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> > Subject: Re: [xmca] Kindergarten as Activity
> System
> >
> >
> >
> > As we talk about it, I would love references
> about connections
> > between Montessori and CHAT as well.
> > david
> >
> > On May 30, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Anton Yasnitsky
> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear colleagues,
> >>
> >> we are presently starting a research on,
> roughly,
> >> voluntary behaviour development in
> preschoolers
> >> in Kindergarten settings. So, I wondering if
> >> anybody is aware of any research done on
> >> Kindergarten (child day care center) as an
> >> Activity system, from any research
> perspective. I
> >> believe there is a lot of literature on this
> out
> >> there, but this is a fairly new topic to me,
> so
> >> -- any help will be very much appreciated.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Anton.
> >>
> >> --- Paula Towsey <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear Mike and Anton
> >>>
> >>> Although Vygotsky maintains that solving
> the
> >>> problem of the blocks isn't
> >>> dependent on 'previous experience or
> knowledge'
> >>> (T&L, 1986, pp.97-98), I
> >>> found that there are other elements of a
> >>> school-like nature that Vygotsky
> >>> apparently did not discuss in Chapter Five
> of
> >>> T&L. His introduction to this
> >>> (finely crafted and delicate) instrument
> starts
> >>> along these lines:
> >>>
> >>> "The functional method of double
> stimulation in
> >>> the study of concept
> >>> formation begins by introducing nonsense
> words
> >>> that from the beginning have
> >>> no meaning for the subject. According to
> >>> Vygotsky, the introduction of
> >>> nonsense words was adapted from Ach's
> (1921)
> >>> use of nonsense words in his
> >>> experimental procedures. These nonsense
> words
> >>> are artificial concepts that
> >>> actually mean a combination of
> characteristics,
> >>> of real attributes, but "for
> >>> which no ready concept and word exist" in
> the
> >>> given language (1986, p. 97).
> >>> This experimental method is designed to
> reveal
> >>> the processes involved in the
> >>> subject's coming to understand the nonsense
> >>> words and, at the same time, to
> >>> reveal the development of these concepts.
> The
> >>> procedure can be used with
> >>> adults and children because solving the
> problem
> >>> doesn't depend on or
> >>> presuppose prior experience or knowledge of
> the
> >>> words and concepts in the
> >>> experiment: the experiment doesn't use
> 'tall',
> >>> 'short', 'large' or 'small'
> >>> on their own, but combines these into new
> >>> relationships exemplified in the
> >>> words cev, bik, mur, and lag." (Towsey,
> 2007,
> >>> p.58)
> >>>
> >>> For your interest, I've attached my
> discussion
> >>> of the three-year-olds'
> >>> responses to the blocks - the 'hidden
> >>> curriculum' seemed to be preparing
> >>> these children well for a rote-style
> approach
> >>> to education!
> >>>
> >>> Paula
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> From: xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu
> >>> [mailto:xmca-bounces@weber.ucsd.edu] On
> >>> Behalf Of Anton Yasnitsky
> >>> Sent: 30 May 2007 08:18 AM
> >>> To: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu; eXtended Mind,
> >>> Culture, Activity
> >>> Subject: Re: [xmca] FW: The functional
> method
> >>> of double stimulation - and
> >>> somephotographs
> >>>
> >>> Just in case: we are meeting with our
> Ukrainian
> >>> team in a couple of days and are open to
> any
> >>> research initiative of this kind. A good
> >>> starting
> >>> point for a cross-cultural project, eh :)?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --- Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Might some kind of collective, distributed
> >>>> effort at conducting a small
> >>>> study using these materials
> >>>> be of interest to XMCA folks?
> >>>> mike
> >>>>
> >>>> On 5/29/07, Carol Macdonald
> >>>> <carolmacdon@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> P
> >>>>> Great to get this. I tried at the
> weekend
> >>> to
> >>>> see how you were, but you
> >>>>> were
> >>>>> out.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am about to contact Nicoleen for the
> 2nd
> >>>> time, and will let you know
> >>>>> directly I hear something.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Jaki's results are back--with 16 pages of
> >>>> corrections. But at least they
> >>>>> are finally back from the second
> examiner.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I am now drowning in work on four
> projects.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thursday I am to have a two hour
> meeting
> >>>> with the Kellogg Foundation
> >>>>> about the bibliotherapy project proposal.
> >>>> Wish me luck.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rush, rush
> >>>>> Love
> >>>>> C
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 29/05/07, Paula Towsey
> >>>> <paulat@johnwtowsey.co.za> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Dear Ana
>
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