Re: [xmca] Kindergarten as Activity System (Hedegaard, M. and Lompscher, J. (1999))

Dear Phil,

thank you very much for the tip.

I am just wondering if you have in mind any
specific paper(s) from this book (
http://www.iscar.org/book2.html )...

I guess, what I am looking for is empirical
research on a class/group and their activities as
a whole: this is where the reference to "activity
system" comes from, although, I believe, one
could call it, say, a "learning ecology" or
"psychological environment" or anything else...

Thanks,
Anton.

--- Phil Chappell <philchappell@mac.com> wrote:

> Dear Anton,
>
> Several papers in the following volume may
> help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil
>
> Hedegaard, M. and Lompscher, J. (1999) Learning
> Activity and
> Development, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press.
>
>
> On 31/05/2007, at 4:30 AM, 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thank you for your suggestion that I
> >>> forward this email to the
> >>>> group. The
> >>>>> blocks I used for my cross-sectional
> >> study
> >>> were made by Stoelting Co.
> >>>>> (USA),
> >>>>> according to the specs. provided by Jacob
> >>> Kasanin and Eugenia Hanfmann
> >>>>> (+/-1936/37).
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My research exercise, 'In Search of
> >>> Vygotsky's Blocks: exploring cev,
> >>>> bik,
> >>>>> mur, and lag in South Africa', was
> >>> conducted for my M. Ed. (Psychology
> >>>> in
> >>>>> Education) by course work and research
> >>> report at Wits University.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> -----Original Message-----
>
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