barrier to tenderness

[Alina Israeli]

The fact that "children should be seen and not heard" is a strictly  
British concept, not German. I wonder if bottling in the emotions  
would give rise to a желчный цвет лица, hence  
желтая англичанка.

Vygotsky was just a "historic" name for much of the 20th century in  
Russia. You have to remember that education and particularly  
psychology were governed by the only truly scientific approach, namely  
marxist-leninist approach. (I took such a course in psychology, so I  
know it first hand.)

You may also find it curious that the psychology dept in Moscow has  
been in existence only since 1966: http://www.psy.msu.ru/about/info.html
So has the one in Leningrad / St. Petersburg: http://www.psy.spbu.ru/history

There was no psychology between the early 30's and mid-60's.

Freud's name was uttered publicly for the first time at an  
international congress in Tbilisi in 1979: http://rjews.net/v_rotenberg/1m.html#.ULkSunHoVCY 
. Russia was in a hurry covering the distance the West covered in the  
previous 80 or 90 years.

Vygotsky's work started being published (again or anew) only in the  
80's: http://www.gumer.info/bibliotek_Buks/Psihol/vug_all/index.php

And everyone knows that it takes a long time from the moment of  
publication to make it to the national consciousness.


On Nov 30, 2012, at 11:56 AM, anne marie devlin wrote:

> While 'black pedagogy' may have been a feature of Russian education  
> - in the broadest sense, it's also worth remembering that Vygotsky  
> was also Russian.  His holistic approach and the theory of zone of  
> proximal development are perhaps the most influential early  
> childhood theories certainly in Europe.
> The idea that children should be strictly disciplined and seen and  
> not heard are not confined to Russia and with the rise of Gina Ford,  
> seem to be making a come back.
>
> AM


Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
WLC, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu






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