In search of Vygotsky's blocks : Exploring CEV, BIK, MUR, and LAG in South Africa

Towsey, Paula M.

In search of Vygotsky's blocks : Exploring CEV, BIK, MUR, and LAG in South Africa

dc.contributor.author	Towsey, Paula M.
dc.date.accessioned	2008-12-02T10:49:28Z
dc.date.available	2008-12-02T10:49:28Z
dc.date.issued	2008-12-02T10:49:28Z
dc.description.abstract	This research exercise aimed to replicate use of the instrument (“Vygotsky’s Blocks”) of Vygotsky and Sakharov (1928-1934) in combination with the 22 wooden blocks and the later adaptations and scoring framework of Hanfmann and Kasanin (1937; 1942). This procedure – the functional method of double stimulation – examined new concept formation from early childhood to adulthood (N=60 subjects, aged three- to 76-years-old) to establish whether contemporary adults and children produced the same or similar patterns as those described by Vygotsky (1986). The study found a developmental trend consistent with Vygotsky’s (1986) writings on the ontogenesis of concept formation. The path from the syncretic, to the concrete and factual, to the intermediate phase before true conceptual thought becomes possible was reflected in a positive correlation between the age of the subjects and their modes of thinking. This verified Vygotsky’s assertion that true conceptual thinking only becomes possible in adolescence. This study aimed to encourage further research with this procedure to confirm the trends found by this study and to validate the adapted scoring method of Hanfmann and Kasanin (1942) for the purposes of cross-sectional use.	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10539/5859
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Vygotsky	en
dc.subject	Sakharov	en
dc.subject	Hanfmann and Kasanin	en
dc.subject	Kozulin	en
dc.subject	Vygotsky’s Blocks	en
dc.subject	concept formation	en
dc.subject	method of double stimulation	en
dc.subject	cross-sectional	en
dc.title	In search of Vygotsky's blocks : Exploring CEV, BIK, MUR, and LAG in South Africa	en
dc.type	Thesis	en