Words to Ponder #1
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Words to Ponder #1

20 Aug Words to Ponder #1

Posted at 21:51h in I Like This, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder by

This post begins what I will try to make a weekly feature—a sharing of quotes that inspire me think/see/feel/relate in some (new) ways. Here’s one I return to over and over again.

“A psychology with a natural science method contains an insoluble contradiction.  It is a natural science about unnatural things [and produces] a system of knwoledge which is contrary to them.”  Lev Vygotsky

 

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  • loisholzman
    Posted at 22:14h, 23 August

    Tim, your careful reading and encouragement always keeps me going. Thanks again.

  • Tim Buchanan
    Posted at 20:34h, 23 August

    Thank you Anthony for the interpretation of this Vygotsky thought. I am constantly looking forward to insights from Lois about education and social growth. As a high school English teacher I come at this shift as a novice. Except building relationships with students demands a similar awareness. Remember “I know” keeps us dumb.
    Thanks Lois, and keep em coming!
    TIM

  • Baylah Wolfe
    Posted at 13:32h, 22 August

    Thank you Lois. This Vygotsky quote keeps me focused as a human being, a social therapist and a builder of social therapeutics as the pull to psychological descriptions and explanations.

    I look forward to your continued posts on what inspires you.

  • loisholzman
    Posted at 15:33h, 21 August

    Thanks, Anthony. Yes, psychology takes what is “natural” in a society and culture and then tries to study it “naturally” (meaning with presuppositions that turn it into something not societal and not cultural) and feeds that to us. Glad you’re among the many who are working to create of psycology of, by and for the people.

  • Anthony Kimball
    Posted at 01:13h, 21 August

    I find very little that’s “natural” about the science of Psychology, which is what I think Dr(?) Vygotsky meant by “unnatural things”. Our curiosity, is natural, and to question, by extension, seems a very natural activity. But to question with a presupposition about that which you are questioning? That is what Psychology many times seems to do. To question, with a preconceived notion about how the person being questioned is supposed feel/be in the world. Not questioning to find out more about what the person is experiencing, what that experience means to that person, to the therapist, to the community in which they exist. I find this to be a disturbingly accurate quote.
    Thanks Lois…I love this idea.

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