{"title":"Arbitrariness, the Stereotypes of Consciousness, and Imagination","authors":"V. Kudryavtsev","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1423846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1423846","url":null,"abstract":"Musical composition demands the expression, through signs of actions, of melodic and rhythmic models that are derived from the “realm of sounds,” which is conceived as “disorder” – or, to put it better, as a “potential aggregation of all possible orders.” The world of music is unique in its own way: it is a world of sounds that are separated out from a mass of noises. —Paul Valéry [not cited in the original.–Ed.]","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126309077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On “Symbolic Dogs” and Productive Imagination","authors":"V. Kudryavtsev","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1423847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1423847","url":null,"abstract":"In the last article, we began a discussion of the principal characteristics of imagination – its realism and abilities to see the whole before the parts, regarding them as the key components of a child’s creative potential. For the past two decades, my associates and I have conducted experimental studies of these characteristics of imagination. Special methodologies were developed for this purpose. One of them is a modification of the methodology of A.V. Zaporozhets (1986), which the author himself used to study the","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126954932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Once Again About the Semantic Nature of Imagination","authors":"V. Kudryavtsev","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1423844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1423844","url":null,"abstract":"This is the paradoxical semantic realism – the realism of children’s imagination, when the technical aspect recedes into the background, but in the process the image remains adequate. Vygotsky [not cited in the original.–Ed.] already wrote long ago about the fact that preschoolers in general take a semantic approach to solving the problems they confront (this is a concretization of his overall idea of the semantic structure of human consciousness). This latter fact, unfortunately, is often overlooked by the authors of many programs of teaching representational activity, which from the outset place an emphasis on learning, say, the technical methods and instruments of drawing and do not care at all about developing in children a semantic vision of the world based on imagination. Yet, this is the most important factor.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132914400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The State of Play Activity Among Today’s Preschoolers","authors":"E. Smirnova, O. V. Gudareva","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1393291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1393291","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines the attributes of play among today’s preschoolers. It discusses typical narratives for play and the level of its development. Data for today’s children is compared with the results of studying children with the same methodology fifty-five years ago. The comparison shows a reduced level of development of narrative role-playing among today’s children, which slows down the full-fledged development of voluntary behavior. The lack of developed narrative role-playing leads to the social and personal underdevelopment of children.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127415663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Problem Realm and the World of Inner Experiences of Upper-Grade Students","authors":"I. A. Meshcheriakova","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1393290","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1393290","url":null,"abstract":"In her chapter, the author understands ‘problems’ not as problems of solving learning tasks, but life situations which a young person has to solve. Such situations are often negative experiences. The author claims that problem situations can only be evaluated on the basis of ‘perezhivanie’ associated with them. This aspect is seldom present in psychological-pedagogical research. Most research starting from the 1920’s uses personal diaries or observations as the methods of studying life problems. But they are not able to reveal objectively relations between life problems and their ‘perezhivanie.’ The author introduces two new survey methods called “the world of perezhivanie” and “panorama of problems,” with which primary material is collected for further elaboration of the relation between problem domains and ‘perezhivanie.’ The chapter presents new methods of collecting data. Empirical results are published in other journals and books.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130248903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Full-Fledged Development of Narrative Role-Playing","authors":"L. I. El’koninova","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1393288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1393288","url":null,"abstract":"The paper supplements the concept of the development of narrative role-playing. The “anchor” of the analysis is the definition, provided more than thirty years ago by D.B. Elkonin, of play and its unit and the concept of the emergence, flourishing, and decline of this type of play. A description is presented of the key points in the development of the form of play activity from the stage when narrative role-playing is merely a future necessity to the stage of its actual form and finally to the point when it becomes a resource for further development. The focus is on the child’s inner experience of the play activity and on the two dimensions and conflict inherent in the transition to a new form of activity. The axis of the description of the ontogenesis of narrative role-playing is the process of the emergence of new forms of activity: “make believe” during the early years; the dual-phase play activity, in which a challenge and a response to the challenge are bound up (preschool years); the internal action plan (school age). The paper presents not only a scientific picture of the development of play based on experimental data, but also the place/prevalence of play in children’s lives.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117123271","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Study of Children’s Play within the Context of Cultural-Historical Psychology: Experience and Prospects","authors":"L. I. El’koninova, I. Grigoryev","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1393289","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1393289","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reconstructs the history of the problem of mental development using material from children’s play. This study shows how researchers in the school of cultural-historical psychology identified the developmental function of play, established a qualitative leap in its development and attempted to re-create it, beginning with the works of L.S. Vygotsky, then of his followers (the activity-based approach in the interpretation of narrative role-playing: A.N. Leontiev, D.B. Elkonin, N.Ia. Mikhailenko, N.A. Korotkova, etc.), and, finally, of the researchers who studied a specific act of development in play (L.I. El’koninova, T.V. Bazhanova, K.O. Iur’eva). This research presents the view that the concept of the cultural form of play, containing a Challenge (defined by the boundaries of the possibilities of action and by risk) and the subsequent Response is the basis not only of narrative role-playing but also of games with rules, as well as computer games. The Challenge entails action that changes the action situation; it typifies all forms of play, which are supposed to tie together what is disjointed in a child’s daily life into a semantic knot.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134202998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eidetic Memory and School Age","authors":"G. Feiman","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1390949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1390949","url":null,"abstract":"What is eidetic memory? It is the ability “in the literal sense of the word to see again an object that has been displayed, either only immediately after viewing it, or after a long interval of time.” The place of eidetic ability among human physiological and psychological abilities is a matter of debate to this day. The principal researcher of eidetic memory, E. Jaensch, a psychology professor at Marburg University, answers this question by drawing an analogy with the color orange. Among psychological and physiological phenomena, he says, eidetic memory occupies a place similar to hues of orange, which may be more red or more yellow, but always lie somewhere in the middle between pure red and pure yellow, approaching either one or the other; in precisely the same way pure afterimages and literally visible concepts that are projected externally form the extreme boundaries betweenwhich lie eidetic images. An eidetic image is conventionally called a visual image and referred to by the letters AB; that is, the phenomenon of eidetic memory sometimes approximates sensations or perceptions and sometimes concepts.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121894737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E. Jaensch as a Psychologist","authors":"P. Blonskii","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1390947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1390947","url":null,"abstract":"It has long been well known that children conceptualize in a highly visual way. For a long time, however, the study of these visual concepts did not go beyond a simple statement of that fact; there was no deeper psychological analysis of visual concepts. An epoch in the history of the study of visual concepts opened with the discovery by the Viennese otologist Urbantschitsch at the end of the nineteenth century of concepts that were so visual that they seemed to occupy an intermediate position between the conventional concepts of adults and perceptions. The discovery of these concepts, for which the name “eidetic” later was later established, greatly expanded the possibilities of a more profound study of visual concepts. Previously, this study was based on selfobservation, retrospection, and questionnaires; now experimentation became the primary method of study. The discovery of a completely new and, in addition, distinctive realm of concepts: visual concepts, visual images (Anschauungsbilder), and the discovery of the possibility of a more scientific and experimental study of them inevitably fascinated psychologists. Among the psychologists who took up this problem was","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130482146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nikolai N. Konstantinov’s Authorial Math Pedagogy for People with Wings","authors":"E. Matusov","doi":"10.1080/10610405.2017.1352391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10610405.2017.1352391","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue is dedicated to an innovative pedagogy by Soviet-Russian math educator Nikalai Nikolaevich Konstantinov. Diverse and at times contradictory interviews with Konstantinov, math teachers involved in his pedagogy, and former students, available sources in Russian and English, and my own memoirs as a former student of Konstantinov, I tried to reconstruct, define, analyze, evaluate, and problematize his innovative pedagogy. Konstantinov himself defined his innovative pedagogy as promoting “people with wings” – promoting initiative, creativity, ownership, critical thinking, and self-realization among students in math and other areas. In math instruction, Konstantinov focuses on providing students with choices of math problems, interrogating students’ math solutions, and offering guidance in a direct response to the questions and difficulties that the students experience in their particular math problems. I demonstrate his pedagogical approach is integrative aiming not only at math. Emerging tensions between students’ curricular choice and teacher’s imposition, educational elitism and social equality, and teacher’s authorial freedom and Konstantinov’s support are discussed.","PeriodicalId":308330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Russian & East European Psychology","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133634551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}