Vygotsky Podcast

Holbrook Mahn illustrates an idea with an interesting anecdote about grammar  

The full chat is here: http://tiny.cc/q5umuz 

Notes for teachers on Holbrook's Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol: http://tiny.cc/0lsmuz

Holbrook Mahn illustrates some question prompts and the thinking behind them. 

These ideas come from his "Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol."  

The full chat is here: http://tiny.cc/q5umuz 

Notes for teachers on Holbrook's Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol: http://tiny.cc/0lsmuz

Holbrook Mahn comments on the origins of concepts, including Vygotsky's notion of potential concepts.   

The full chat is here: http://tiny.cc/q5umuz

Holbrook Mahn on Vygotsky's interest in the unity of learning and development.    

The full chat is here: http://tiny.cc/q5umuz

Vygotskian scholar Holbrook Mahn helps to illuminate the essence of concepts and how they might be purposefully developed.  

Highlights include: 

1:40 - Holbrook's role in (and relationship to) the "Vygotsky-sphere" 

6:28 - Advantages of Holbrook's pre-Vygotsky background  

8:51 - The importance of dialectics and process-oriented study  

11:28 - The unity, not the identity, of learning and development 

14:06 - Different aspects of the "system of concepts" concept 

16:22 - What is a concept and what are the origins of concepts?  

19:22 - Animals have concepts (pre-human concepts; potential concepts)  

24:00 - Brain/mind unity, meaning, & sense - the creation of concepts 

26:55 - Generalization and affect 

34:45 - What is a "conceptual neuronal network"? 

39:50 - Everyday & academic in classrooms (conceptual knowledge & conceptual understanding) 

45:00 - Making everyday & academic concepts visual and explicit 

48:55 - The ALA Protocol -- helping students access & develop academic concepts (see link below) 

55:34 - Thinking in concepts 1:02:00 - Dialectical thinking (origins in the universe itself?) 

1:06:06 - The process of constructing ALA prompts (a demo)  

1:14:52 - Ending, not starting, with the verbal definitions 

1:17:32 - Tribute to Mom  

Additional resources: 

Notes for teachers on Holbrook's Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol: http://tiny.cc/0lsmuz

More from Holbrook here: https://home.edweb.net/people/holbrook-mahn/

Hierarchy of concepts snapshot: https://ifioque.com/psyche/concept-formation 

My online grammar course is here: http://tiny.cc/rpsmuz (contact me directly for discounts)

Some concepts from Peter Smagorinsky's glossary, via his (2011) book Vygotsky and Literacy Research: A Methodological Framework http://tiny.cc/cy4muz

Nikolai Veresov on how the "leading function" of memory can create the illusion of concept development.  Excerpted from http://tiny.cc/da2muz

Nikolai Veresov highlights one of the hardest challenges of teaching.  Excerpted from http://tiny.cc/da2muz

Nikolai Veresov discusses ZPD's role in Vygotsky's conceptual system.  Excerpted from http://tiny.cc/da2muz

In a follow-up to his video on the Social Situation of Development (http://tiny.cc/xuhkuz), Andy Blunden discusses the importance of perezhivanie to adult development.

0:03 - the question

2:34 - the word perezhivanie

7:50 - perezhivanie and personality

12:00 - comparing adulthood & childhood perezhivanie

"What does the Social Situation of Development mean?" - http://tiny.cc/xuhkuz