Vygotsky Podcast23 Joulu 2021

(S1,Ep24) Holbrook Mahn on Teaching & Learning with Concepts

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)

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