Re: [xmca] LV Quote on the importance of meaningful work in learning and development

Hi, Debora!
Before I can find a relevant LV's passage, I recall seemingly relevant
discussion of A.N. Leontjev. I can not give you exact citation in English
because I use Russian edition of "Activity, Consciousness, Personality"
pp.293-295.
He describes observation of activities of children involved in development
of aeroplane models. They liked to construct, but escaped lessons on theory
until at a competition they've seen that some planes fly long distance, some
fall immediately. When they asked their teacher :"Why?", he invited them to
learn the rules of aerodynamics and they enthusiastically started to learn,
because then the theory was meaningful for them.
Bella Kotik-Friedgut

On 1/11/08, deborah downing-wilson <ddowningw@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As a lead in to my question...yesterday afternoon I watched an
> undergraduate
> student literally skip out of Mike's office. He is taking part in a class
> where the students are engaged in real work - in accomplishing an
> important
> task that would otherwise not get done - and his enthusiasm for
> the assignment was palpable.
>
> Along that line, I'm looking for a Vygotsky passage that discusses the
> need
> for leading activities to have real meaning for the learner. By any
> chance
> do you have a great quote at your fingertips?
>
> Deb
>
>
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> Deborah Downing Wilson
> Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition
> University of California San Diego
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