Vygotsky Podcast

Andy Blunden offers his thoughts.  (Initially published November 14, 2020)

More Q & A here: http://tiny.cc/73p4tz

Important questions. Interesting answers. Excerpts from Andy Blunden,  Huw Lloyd, Peter Smagorinsky, David Kellogg, and Nikolai Veresov provide a great start to a rich conversation...   (Initially published November 1, 2020)

Sources for all clips are available here: http://tiny.cc/led1tz

Writing for the general public is challenging -- and rewarding.  How would YOU explain Vygotsky's theory for a general audience -- e.g, parents, teachers, coaches, relatives --  without sacrificing accuracy?  It might be harder than it looks!  (Initially published October 30, 2020)

Academic Peter Smagorinsky publishes prolifically and also contributes regular newspaper columns for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  

Philosopher Andy Blunden translates, curates, and publishes at ethicalpolitics.org and also maintains a vibrant YouTube presence.  

The full clips are available here: http://tiny.cc/ez91tz or here: http://tiny.cc/mz91tz

Jordan Hall offers a Vygotsky-esque definition of culture before  focusing on one slice of culture: narrative storytelling. He then talks  about various dimensions of narrative, including narrative as  cultural-artifact, narrative as mythopoetic past, and narrative as a  reliable "mythopoetic" guide for future-shaping, or at least for  imagined futures.  (Initially published October 28, 2020)

Full video here: http://tiny.cc/6a51tz

. . . and are they any wiser?  Two excerpts from Daniel Schmachtenberger, on the dialectics of development and on proceeding  with caution.  (Initially published October 28, 2020.)

Sources: clip 1 - http://tiny.cc/kru0tz  clip 2 - http://tiny.cc/mru0tz

Nikolai Veresov discusses the refraction and microgenesis of dramatic  perezhivanie, a concept introduced previously with Marilyn Fleer. (Originally published October 20, 2020)

The full lecture, "Demystifying Perezhivanie: understanding development  in the cultural-historical framework," is here: http://tiny.cc/87ezsz

Nikolai Veresov looks to the concept of perezhivanie to answer the question.  (Originally published October 12, 2020)

The full lecture, "Demystifying Perezhivanie: understanding development in the cultural-historical framework," is here: http://tiny.cc/87ezsz

Nikolai Veresov discusses Vygotsky's "greatest contribution" -- the "discovery of the objectively existing laws of the development of all higher psychological functions"  (Originally published October 12, 2020)

Side questions include: Have these laws been challenged? Is Vygotsky's theory a left-wing theory? Should conservatives be wary of this theory?

Excerpted from "Vygotsky's Role in the History of Psychology - Part 2" http://tiny.cc/2983iz   

In an era of widespread replication crises, particularly in the social sciences, Nikolai Veresov reminds us that qualitative changes "don't come back."  He then illustrates this "principle of sustainable results" with a historical anecdote about about Soviet propaganda and one researcher's honor.  (Originally published September 14, 2020)

More on the principle of sustainable results (Principle 5) here:  http://tiny.cc/gvxusz  

Excerpted from "Cultural-historical genetic research methodology-Part 1  by Nikolai Veresov" http://tiny.cc/9g2usz

Nikolai Veresov argues that Vygotsky's zone of proximal development  (ZPD) was created as a research tool, specifically as a means of helping  researchers "find the buds" of development, i.e., to determine which  psychological functions are in their earliest stage of development.  (Originally published September 14, 2020)

The ZPD, therefore, is the conceptual tool that aligns with research principle #1: 'the principle of buds of development' (more here:  http://tiny.cc/gvxusz)   

Excerpted from "Cultural-historical genetic research methodology-Part 1  by Nikolai Veresov" http://tiny.cc/9g2usz