Browsing by Autor "Martin J. Packer"

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A concrete psychological investigation of ifá divination/ una investigación psicológica concreta de la adivinación de ifá/ uma pesquisa psicológica concreta da adivinhação de ifá
(LA Referencia, 2012) Martin J. Packer; Silvia Tibaduiza Sierra
Divination -the consultation of an oracle in order to determine a course for future action- has long been considered a practice characteristic of "primitive mentality." We describe research with the babalawo of Santería, who are expert in the divinatory system of Ifá. Our first goal is to offer an example of what Vygotsky called "concrete psychology": the study of particular systems of psychological functions in the concrete circumstances of specific professional complexes. Our second goal is to explore the character of divination as psychological and social process, given the somewhat negative views of divination expressed by many social scientists, including Lévy-Bruhl and Vygotsky himself. Analysis of a recorded consultation identified features characteristic of institutional discourse. We argue that the institutional facts of divination may constitute an unfamiliar ontology, but the epistemology -the appeal to logic and to empirical evidence- is a familiar one.
Editorial
(Taylor & Francis, 2011) Martin J. Packer; Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns; Andy Blunden
Hacia una ontología social del aprendizaje
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2011) Jean Lave; Martin J. Packer
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La relación entre el lenguaje y el pensamiento
(2017) Juan Camilo López Medina; Juan Sebastián Sánchez Ávila; Adriana Marcela Giraldo Villa; Martin J. Packer; Adriana Marcela Giraldo Villa; Universidad de los Andes; Martin John Packer; Universidad de San Buenaventura, Cali
En este comentario sobre el artículo-objetivo de Pardos (2017), ofrecemos primero una síntesis de su relato histórico para aclarar el problema que él identifica en cómo la psicología ha tratado el concepto de imagen y además aclarar la solución que ofrece. Luego discutimos dos simplificaciones que Pardos hace cuando trata de vincular la obra de J. B. Watson y de L. S. Vygotsky con el fin de aclarar la relación entre el lenguaje y el pensamiento. Por último, pretendemos aclarar la manera en que Vygotsky ofreció una visión materialista del pensamiento y su relación con el lenguaje y, al hacerlo, cuestionó la suposición de que las representaciones mentales son las unidades básicas de ambas funciones psicológicas.
Presentación
(Universidad de Los Andes, 2011) Larreamendy Joerns Jorge; Martin J. Packer
Research Methodology for a Concrete Psychology: The Fifth Dimension Research
(LA Referencia, 2014) Michael Cole; Martin J. Packer; Elías Kobelt
"This paper illustrates how the Fifth Dimension (5thD) after-school program exemplifies a mode of psychological inquiry that rejects standard experimental methods because of their artificiality and consequent removal from everyday life. It enables carefully documented descriptions of behavior in cultural practices that have been organized in such a way that significant psychological tasks occur routinely. In this way, the 5thD makes possible the analysis of processes of learning and development. Our data are drawn from two 5thD Dimension programs at two stages of development in two very different sociocultural and economic contexts. The first is a fully mature program, the other a program in the process of formation. The data from the first program illustrate the consequences when children with developmental disabilities can be included in activities with children whose developmental trajectories fall close to local norms. The data from the second program illustrate how a new program makes visible the children’s sensitivity to the rights and responsibilities of their participation."