
(S4,Ep5) Peter Smagorinsky on "Sturdy" Concepts (re-post)
(Originally posted Jan 23, 2020) What's better: theory or practice? Full video: http://tiny.cc/cr83iz
27 Apr 20221min

(S4,Ep7) Peter Smagorinsky on "Social" Concepts (re-post)
(Originally posted Jan 23, 2020) Are hard-science concepts similar to social-science ones? Are they equally reliable? Full video: http://tiny.cc/cr83iz
27 Apr 20221min

(S4,Ep11) Nikolai Veresov on helping children - and adults - overcome obstacles (re-post)
(Originally posted Jan 23, 2020) "And then we look: do they have enough higher psychological functions to overcome this?" Full video: http://tiny.cc/2983iz
27 Apr 20221min

(S4,Ep13) Peter Smagorinsky on Biological and Cultural Development (re-post)
(Originally posted Jan 23, 2020) An interesting explanation of lower and higher mental functions Full video: http://tiny.cc/by93iz
27 Apr 20221min

(S4,Ep37) Transformers & Flowers (re-post)
(Originally posted Jun 16, 2020) Nikolai Veresov explains, via analogy, the difference between transformation and qualitative reorganization. Full interview here: http://tiny.cc/lj0uqz
27 Apr 20222min

(S5,Ep1) Notes on Dialectics, 1 (bird's-eye view) (re-post)
(Originally posted March 2, 2020 at http://tiny.cc/4nylsz) I am trying to understand Vygotsky's theory in a way that's easy to explain. This is harder than I had hoped. For instance, a sufficient un...
27 Apr 202215min

(S5,Ep2) Vygotsky on teaching (and learning) concepts (re-post)
(Originally posted July 26, 2020 at http://tiny.cc/4nylsz) Some interesting paragraphs from Thinking & Speech, Ch. 6, pp. 169-70
27 Apr 20222min

(S4,Ep42) The Key to Unlocking Vygotsky? (repost)
(Originally published Jul 17, 2020) Nikolai Veresov says that understanding dialectics is a prerequisite for grasping the depth of Vygotsky's project, since "cultural-historical theory is the result o...
27 Apr 20222min



















