I work in school systems and try to use this intersubjective relational lens to deepen my understanding of "mediated learning" as a process of "implicit relational knowing" (see Daniel Stern) as well as explicit relational knowing and practices. Intersubjectivity as experienced in the moment to moment enactments that are elaborated within the interactions of mediated learning are grounded in affective attunement as foundational to cognitive learning.
I hesitate to bring "psychoanalytic" models to this website because of the reaction to traditional Freudian models of reified psychic structure and all that baggage. However I happen to be intrigued by both "mediated learning" and "intersubjectivity" as ways to look at the micro units of analysis.
As an aside Daniel Stern was one of the researches, with Jerome Bruner, and others who studied "baby talk" and the development of language in moment to moment transactions. Twenty years later Daniel Stern and the Boston Change Process Study Group are still working at this micro unit of the present moment and the creation of intersubjective spaces.
Stern (p.43 "The Present Moment") quoted William James as he described the stream of consciousness as like a bird's life made up of an alteration of flights and perchings. Stern's book elaborates the present moments are like the perchings. The flights are the spaces between moments of consciousness. These "flights" are inaccesible and ungraspable. "Consciousness is thus free to switch focus from one present moment to the next, and the sense of the self as experiencer is never felt to be interrupted, even though the perchings are discontinuous. These present moments are the stuff of subjectivity during ordianary mental states" (p.43)
Mediated learning in the ZPD can be enriched by exploring Mead's and Stern's and other scholars who are exploring intersubjectivity and the development of the self.
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From: Tony Whitson <twhitson@UDel.Edu>
Date: Saturday, October 31, 2009 7:12 pm
Subject: Re: [xmca] guess who
To: lchcmike@gmail.com, "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Cc: Ben DeVane <ben.devane@gmail.com>
Mead was also my first guess (and it really was a guess, since I
haven't
actually read Mead)
But I thought the more interesting thing about the provocation
is that
even though it seemed like exactly what I would expect from
Mead, I could
not be certain, because there are a number of others we are
interested in
who could just as well have said the same. That's what I find
most
interesting in this.
And I do think this is part of Hegel's legacy, such that even
Lacan could
have said much the same as this, although with somewhat
differing
implications.
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, mike cole wrote:
Got it first try. Mead got his PhD with Dilthey. My own guess
is that this
goes back to at least Hegel, but others would know better.
(Dishes done, snuck away)
mike
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Ben DeVane
<ben.devane@gmail.com> wrote:
We just got done reading Mead in our pragmatism reading group here,
and it sounds very Meadish (Vygotsky crossed with Dewey), so
that's my
guess. Honest I didn't look it up on Google.
I really enjoyed the Holland & Lachicotte, and Edwards
chapters on the
parallels between Mead and Vygotsky in the Cambridge
handbook. Highly
recommended for anyone unfamiliar with Mead's work.
-Ben
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:09 PM, mike cole
<lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
In preparing for class just now i fell across this sentence.
Obvious who
wrote it without looking it up on google?
“*The self is something which has a development*, it is not
initially>> there
at birth, but arises in the process of social experiences
and activity,
that
is, develops in the given individual as a result of his
relations to that
process as a whole and to other individuals within that process”
My own relations are saying get the hell off the computer,
the doorbell
is
ringing and the goblins are on the move. So off i go.
mike
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