Re: [xmca] ZPD

Thanks Volker for reminding me of the meeting in Kucevo, I just wish to add
a sentence. After a conversation within the group of psychologists and
non-psychologists (ordinary people) about ZPD, the young man gave a new
name Zone of People's Development.

Vesna

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From: "Volker.hippie" <Volker.hippie@tele2adsl.dk>
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [xmca] ZPD

> Yes, and, ... one thing is to talk and think and write about the ZPD,
> another thing is to experience the creation of ZPD's "live", in real
space.
>
> Yes, and, surely The All Stars Talent Network is a wonderful group of
> people who are able to do that, creating ZPD's, right on the spot -
> perhaps not all the time, but many times, and always the times I have
> enjoyed meeting them. - perhaps because it is not so much about "about",
> but it is about doing it together.
>
> Yes, and a mail conversation is mostly /about/ something.
>
> Wonderful that you put spot on, that by "performing the ZPD" we can
> learn "it" by joining the activity, and not by thinking "about" it.
>
> Even though it is wonderful afterwards to remember it, and like here, to
> write "about" it.
>
> ...
>
> By the way, last time I experienced young and elder people celebrating
> "performing ZPD" happened in Kuceva, a place - far out - in Serbia,
> where people from "Hi Neighbour" once again created a wonderful
> gathering with international "Vygotsky"-friends, like Lois Holzman,
> Vesna Ogjenovic, Leif Strandberg, Lina Kostarova(all members on this
> list), Poul Murray, Wilfried Kernke, and more.
>
> It seems to me that Lois has to be where important ZPD's are created. -
> Thanks to Lois for inspiring and supporting others to that.
>
> Dear Dot, so lovely to hear your voice (read your message), - Volker
> Bunzendahl
>
> --
> Volker Bunzendahl, asociate professor, cand. psych.
> Professionshøjskolen University College Nordjylland
> Mylius Erichsens Vej 131, 9210 Aalborg SØ, Denmark
> Mail: vob who-is-at ucn.dk -- Web: http://volker.dk
> Telefon: +45 8696 4614, +45 2873 4620
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Dot Robbins skrev:
> > Dear Lois (and Everyone),
> > I want to thank you publicly for offering me an understanding of the
ZPD that truly changed my entire approach to teaching. When watching the All
Stars video, I was so deeply struck at how many lives you have touched.
Within the understanding of performance, play, imitation, so many aspects,
the ZPD literally became alive for me within the classroom, as a tool for
more spontaneity and hopeful transformation. Thank you so much.
> >
> > I tried a number of years ago to establish what the ZPD meant for me,
and that is attached, which was later edited for a book called: Vygotsky's
and A. A. Leontiev's Semiotics and Psycholinguistics: Applications for
Education, Second Language Acquisition, and Theories of Language (Westport,
CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003, pp.28-53).
> >
> > However, the statement from you (1996 in Newman and Holzman,
Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural Performatory Approach to Understanding
Human Life. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers) has been my personal anchor
for understanding a "living" ZPD: "A ZPD is a form of life in which people
collectively and relationally create developmental learning that goes beyond
what any individual in the group could learn on her or his own. Our effort
is to create continuously overlapping ZPDs, a particular relational activity
that simultaneously is and makes possible the transforming of regified
behavior (forms of life that have become alienated and fossilized) into new
forms of life." (p. 71)
> >
> > Spending one day in New York with you, really watching the huge number
of people you are reaching, with a living ZPD, is something I will never
forget.
> > Dot
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dorothy (Dot) Robbins
> > Professor of German
> > Russian Orphanage Vyschgorod
> > www.vygotsky-robbins.com
> >
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