Re: [xmca] Information about Russian Vygotsky School 2009

[Mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>]

Elina-- So many of us have exactly ZERO opportunity of travelling, why not
collaborate to get some
sort of support to stream the lectures and have a web site where discussion
could go on simultaneously.

The fetish with geographical proximity as a necessary condition of serious
interaction about matters of
deep scholarly concern is getting more and more difficult to defend, its
seems to me. As a last recourse
where there is not electricity and no connectivity except expensive airplane
rides and lack off family
obligations I can see it. But as a continued norm????

Mike

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Elina Lampert-Shepel
<ellampert@gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
> Below and attached is the information about Russian Vygotsky Summer School
> 2009 that was a collaborative effort of Elena Kravtsova, Dot Robbins, and
> myself. We hope that there will be enough interest in this unique
> experience. Vygotskian cultural-historical psychology became a theory of
> democratic change and school reform during the years of perestroyka. Golden
> Key School Methodology is an original and powerful approach thathe original
> Vygotskian ideas about social situation of development, unity
> of affect and intellect, and ZPD into practice.
> Best regards,
> Elina
>
> *Russian Vygotsky Summer School 2009*
>
> *"Total Immersion in the Golden Key School Methodology"*
>
> *Place: Belaya Kalytva, Russia*
>
> *Director, Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova (granddaughter of L. S. Vygotsky)*
>
> *June 19 – 26, 2009 *
>
> You are invited to participate in the 2009 Vygotsky Summer School, to take
> place in Belaya Kalytva, Russia from June 19-26, 2009. This summer school
> will take place in a Golden Key elementary school, with
> professors/staff/students from the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology,
> Russian
> State University for the Humanities, Moscow, and others, attending. We will
> join the staff and students/parents in the village of Belaya Kalytva
> (approx. 26 hours south of Moscow), and participants will stay in one
> hotel,
> and will come to the school each day for the events. The Program Committee
> will prepare an overview of the Golden Key concept by introducing the
> curriculum for various levels in depth, according to the different grade
> levels of instruction, from early childhood until around 11 years of age.
> Participants will have the opportunity for participation, presentations,
> questions, role-playing themselves, and learning about how a Vygotskian
> methodology is practiced in education in Russia. You will also have the
> unique opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Vygotsky family/and team
> today.  Participants will be immersed in how the Golden Key elementary
> school environments are created, within an integrated curriculum,
> understanding how the ZPD is interpreted.
>
>
>
> *Dates*: June 19 – 26, 2009.
>
>
>
> *Place*:  Belaya Kalytva, Russia
>
>
>
> *Travelling Information*: Participants will have two options to reach
> Belaya
> Kalytva, Russia:
>
> Arrive in Moscow a couple of days early (especially for the time change
> adjustment, and the police registration….this registration cannot happen on
> weekends.). Those of us arriving in Moscow, and the Summer School
> staff/students from the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, will be taking
> the
> overnight train from Moscow to Belaya Kalytva on June 19th, arriving around
> noon the next morning. Participants will pay for the train ticket
> individually, not included in the registration fees. If you select this
> program, we will leave Belaya Kalytva mid-afternoon for a train to Moscow
> on
> June 26th. We will be working with you individually about your stay in
> Moscow that evening and your return flight the next day, or later.
>
>
>
> The other alternative is the following: Fly to Rostov-on-Don (or simply
> Rostov, Russia) directly. You will be responsible for the cost of the
> transfer from Rostov to Belaya Kalytva, with our help. The detailed
> information will be provided. We are hoping that a small group of
> international and Russian participants will be willing to embark on a real
> adventure, knowing that we will not have all of the comforts of home. And,
> yet, the rewards can be tremendous in terms of understanding how Vygotskian
> methodology is practiced in education in Russia, in the Golden Key Schools.
> You will also be involved in discussions on establishing a viable
> international network that begins to understand each other from different
> perspectives, and you will have an exciting opportunity of developing
> cross-cultural collaboration. You will have two options upon arriving in
> Russia: You can come to Moscow first, or you can fly directly to
> Rostov-on-Don, where you will be met and taken to Belaya Kalytva (with
> additional transfer fees applying). We will all meet and begin the Summer
> School 2009 in Belaya Kalytva in the early afternoon of June 20th. Please
> bring your swimming suits for afternoon swims!
>
>
>
> *Price: *(with no exceptions):
>
> Regular registration fee: $200
>
> Student registration fee (for students under 30): $100
>
> IVS member fee: $150
>
>
>
> The registration fee will include printed materials, workshops, all
> lunches,
> tours around Belaya Kalytva, welcoming party, and a banquet, and bus
> transfers from the hotel to the Golden Key school each day.
>
> You will be responsible for:  your visa application, flight to/from Moscow
> or Rostov-on-Don, transfer from/to airport , hotel in Moscow and/or hotel
> in
> Belaya Kalytva (which will be arranged for the group), international health
> insurance, and evening meals. Due to the international financial situation,
> all prices are subject to change. We are keeping the registration as low as
> possible.
>
>
>
> *Certificate:* If you are engaged in the entire course, you will receive a
> certificate of participation, which will be personally signed by the
> daughter of L. S. Vygotsky, Gita L'vovna Vygodskya.
>
>
>
> *Deadlines*: In order for the Vygotsky Summer School 2009 to take place, we
> will need to have your registration form, and flight information [scanned
> and e-mailed], by May 15, 2009. There must be at least 15 participants,
> with
> plane tickets purchased for the Summer School to take place. Once we hear
> from you, you will be sent an application form. And, once we receive that
> form, together with a scanned copy of your airline ticket, we will begin
> working with you individually. Remember that you will need around one month
> for the Russian visa process.  However, if we do not reach this number of
> participants, please know that you can attend the seminar in Belaya Kalytva
> on your own.
>
>
>
> *Information*: Please send out this flyer to as many
> colleagues/students/staff/all, as soon as possible. We will be happy to
> send
> you more detailed information once we hear from you. And, if you decide to
> participate in the 2009 Summer School, please know that you will receive
> step-by-step information on how to obtain a visa, travel information,
> information on how to rent an apartment in Moscow, etc. And, if you arrive
> in Moscow first, upon request, you can receive a Russian student advisor to
> meet you at the airport and help you during your stay in Moscow. The
> student
> advisor will speak English, and hopefully you will be able to make a
> financial offering to that student after all services are rendered. And,
> please do not come to Russia without international health insurance. You
> can
> check the STA website for reasonable prices. We will be happy to send you
> the registration form as soon as we hear from you.  Once we receive
> verification of a paid plane ticket (scanned and e-mailed), we will begin
> working with you individually. The registration fee will be paid once you
> are in Russia. You can be sure that we will do everything in our power to
> make your stay in Russia most enjoyable and profitable.
>
> We look forward to welcoming you in Russia in June 2009!
>
>
>
> With good wishes,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova, Director
>
> Russian State University for the Humanities
>
>
> Miusskaya Square 6
>
> 12567 Moscow, Russia
>
> Phone: International number  + 7 (495) 250 6147
>
> Fax; International number + 7 (495) 973 4434
>
>
>
> International Directors:
>
> Dot Robbins at dot.robbins@gmail.com  + Elina Lampert-Shepel at
> ellampert@gmail.com
>
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> --
> If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as
> it is, infinite.
> --William Blake
>
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