Re: [xmca] AN Leontyev's Problems of Development of Mind

So Santa Claus/Ded Moroz/ et al are alive and well in Canada and Australia!
Who would have thunk that Andy and Michael were Santa's helpers.
thanks
mike

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:

> Michael Roth has scanned the entire book, and photocopies are now available
> at http://marx.org/archive/leontev/works/1981/pdfs/ (altogether 15Mb)
>
> I have OCRed and corrected it, and made a start on inserting the diagrams
> and the result is at
> http://marx.org/archive/leontev/works/development-mind.pdf (1.8 Mb)
>
> *Can someone to proofread this* for me? Is there anyone who has not read
> the book, who would like to read it and mark errors with a highlight tool on
> the PDF for me?
>
> The book is in fact a "Selected Works" of AN Leontyev,
>
> 1. The Problem of the Origin of Sensation 1
> I. The Problem 1
> II. Hypothesis 19
> III. The Functional Evolution of Sensitivity 43
> IV. Discussion of the Results and Conclusions 95
> 2. The Biological and Social in Man's Psyche 107
> 3. An Outline of the Evolution of the Psyche 129
> I. The Evolution of the Psyche in Animals 129
> II. The Origin of Human Consciousness 165
> III. Historical Development of Consciousness 181
> 4. Historical Approach to Study of the Psyche 227
> 5. The Development of Higher Forms of Memory 275
> 6. Psychological Principles of Preschool Play 305
> 7. The Development of the Child's Psyche 327
> 8. The Child's Development 350
>
> Andy
>
> and Best wishes for the holiday season for everyone!
>
> Haydi Zulfei wrote:
>
>> Dear Andy,
>> Thank you for your good news of the New Year Gift !! Don't moan ; don't
>> lament it was published under Stalin !! :) Alas David is the first to have
>> it :) Haydi --- On Sat, 12/20/08, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>>
>> From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
>> Subject: [xmca] AN Leontyev's Problems of Development of Mind
>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>> Date: Saturday, December 20, 2008, 9:57 AM
>>
>> Is there anyone who has a good clean copy of AN Leontyev's Problems of
>> Development of Mind who would be preared to give, sell or lend it to me so
>> that
>> it can be transcribed and made available in an electronic copy?
>>
>> Andy
>>
>> David Kellogg wrote:
>>
>>> Mike:
>>> You sounded a little discouraged. Let me show you something. It's
>>>
>> mostly in Korean, but I think you will like it anyway:
>>
>>> http://cafe.naver.com/vygotsky
>>> As you can see, it's a very big cafe style website: many rooms, lots
>>>
>> of material, and many different functions. Among other things it does
>> this:
>>
>>> a) It's a major means by which the work of MCA and xmca gets
>>>
>> translated into Korean and disseminated in Korea. b) It is a vehicle for
>> the
>> "Institute of Progressive Education", founded and funded by the Korea
>> Educational Workers Union (recently legalized and just now being
>> unlegalized by
>> the new Yi Myeongbak dictatorship).
>>
>>> c) It's the main place where our Thinking and Speech translation
>>>
>> group meets while I am here in America with my wife.
>>
>>> But I didn't set it up.To tell you the truth, I discovered it quite
>>>
>> by chance, through one of my grad students, only about a month ago. It was
>> set
>> up back in April by militants of the KCTU, the Korean Confederation of
>> Trade
>> Unions. Like any cafe frequented by busy workers, it's a bit of a
>> complexive mess. Alongside the work of Michael Cole (lovingly translated
>> into
>> Korean by the director of the Institute of Progressive education, Bae
>> Hicheol,
>> who teaches third, fourth, fifth and sixth graders in a single classroom
>> school
>> up in the mountains of Kangwando) there are ruminations about Desmond
>> Morris and
>> the Naked Ape that would make you cringe.
>>
>>> There are even things that make me cringe, like the invidious comparison
>>>
>> between Yrjo Engestrom's work with Finnish primary education and our own
>> work (we've got TEN times the population!)
>>
>>> But this is the power of complexive thinking! When one branch runs into
>>> a
>>>
>> dead end, you almost always find some offshoot flourishing. Volosinov
>> thought
>> that was a GOOD thing, not a BAD thing. And yes, Volosinov really LOATHED
>> Saussure; one of the things he liked to point out was that if Saussure's
>> view of language was correct, any breakdown in the system would render ALL
>> of
>> the other elements meaningless. Fortunately, complexive thinking is not
>> like
>> that.
>>
>>> dk
>>>
>>>
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