Vygotskian scholar Holbrook Mahn helps to illuminate the essence of concepts and how they might be purposefully developed.
Highlights include:
1:40 - Holbrook's role in (and relationship to) the "Vygotsky-sphere"
6:28 - Advantages of Holbrook's pre-Vygotsky background
8:51 - The importance of dialectics and process-oriented study
11:28 - The unity, not the identity, of learning and development
14:06 - Different aspects of the "system of concepts" concept
16:22 - What is a concept and what are the origins of concepts?
19:22 - Animals have concepts (pre-human concepts; potential concepts)
24:00 - Brain/mind unity, meaning, & sense - the creation of concepts
26:55 - Generalization and affect
34:45 - What is a "conceptual neuronal network"?
39:50 - Everyday & academic in classrooms (conceptual knowledge & conceptual understanding)
45:00 - Making everyday & academic concepts visual and explicit
48:55 - The ALA Protocol -- helping students access & develop academic concepts (see link below)
55:34 - Thinking in concepts 1:02:00 - Dialectical thinking (origins in the universe itself?)
1:06:06 - The process of constructing ALA prompts (a demo)
1:14:52 - Ending, not starting, with the verbal definitions
1:17:32 - Tribute to Mom
Additional resources:
Notes for teachers on Holbrook's Academic Literacy for All (ALA) Protocol: http://tiny.cc/0lsmuz
More from Holbrook here: https://home.edweb.net/people/holbrook-mahn/
Hierarchy of concepts snapshot: https://ifioque.com/psyche/concept-formation
My online grammar course is here: http://tiny.cc/rpsmuz (contact me directly for discounts)
