Vygotsky Podcast

Andy Blunden lists various units of analysis developed by Vygotsky during a fertile period, against a revolutionary backdrop.  (Originally published September 4, 2020)

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Andy Blunden distinguishes the 'mechanical' unit of analysis from the 'organic'  (Originally published September 4, 2020)

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Andy Blunden offers historical context and an explanation.  (Originally published September 4, 2020)

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Huw Lloyd focuses on a "small but very powerful set of ideas" at the heart of a developmental education approach.

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Huw Lloyd on the pleasures of implementing ideas into real-world  results, and making room for such emotions in classrooms, via a problem-oriented approach.  (Originally published September 3, 2020)

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Huw Lloyd identifies some key attributes of developmental education.  (Originally published September 3, 2020)

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Huw Lloyd suggests personal and classroom benefits of being mindful of our own active orientation.  (Originally published September 3, 2020)

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Developmental researcher Huw Lloyd gives an introduction. (Originally published September 3, 2020)

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Excerpts from George Hillocks, Jr.'s (1995) book, Teaching Writing as Reflective Practice  (Originally published September 1, 2020)

0:23 - Three Modes of Teaching: Environmental, Presentational, and Natural Process 

2:40 - Features of Environments for Active Learning 

4:27 - Goals and Objectives of Environmental Teaching 

8:27 - Selection of Materials and Problems 

10:23 - Providing Support for Learning: Structural & Small peer-group support 

13:50 - Student Ownership 

15:42 - Environmental Teaching: a Vygotskian Perspective   

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Researcher and chronicler Andy Blunden reflects on his own relationship with Vygotsky, his role and contributions to the Vygotsky-sphere, and some developmental landmarks.  (Originally published August 28, 2020)

Highlights include: 

1:45 - Andy's role in the Vygotsky-sphere 

7:20 - Hegel's 'unit of analysis' (circle/whole) and das einfach 

15:15 - Vygotsky's inventiveness & extensions of the Goethe/Hegel 'unit of analysis' tradition 

22:09 - "Vygotsky was to psychology like Einstein was to physics" (interdisciplinary breakthroughs) 

27:48 - CHAT/CHT and orthodoxy ("the only orthodoxy is science") 

34:11 - What are the best and worst critiques of Marxism from the Right? 

43:10 - Andy's expertise and 'social change' analyses via the 'unit of analysis' approach 

56:30 - How accurate have Andy's 'unit of analysis' diagnoses been? 

1:01:30 - What is Vygotsky's theory? 

1:10:35 - Does development happen gradually or suddenly? 

1:18:54 - Is collective development a thing, or individuals only? (collective perezhivanie) 

1:26:21 - "Dialectics of development" and different types of change 

1:34:09 - Any "Vygotskian moments" in Andy's own development? 

1:45:10 - Themes in Andy's story? 

1:49:23 - How will Andy be remembered?  

References: "The coronavirus pandemic is a world perezhivanie" - https://bit.ly/32zJOfg

Fate of a Man (1959) - https://bit.ly/3hDXbRL

"The Unit of Analysis and Germ Cell in Hegel, Marx, and Vygotsky" - https://bit.ly/2YLFqsn