Acerca de la unidad de análisis en psicología del desarrollo

Authors

  • Ignasi Vila, 1950-
  • Mercè Bassedas

Keywords:

Unit of Analysis, Mediated Action, Family Context.

Abstract

Vygotsky proposed substituting Piaget's diadic "unit of analysis" by a triadic unit of analysis, in which "someone" socially organizes the subject's activity with the object of knowledge. This proposal has led several authors to formulate "semiotically-mediated activity" as a unit of analysis. In this article, using the notion of context as our starting point, we discuss the validity of this unit by means of un example: part of a set of observations of a 4-year-old child with its mother in natural situations in the family context. In the conclusions, we stress the validity of Vygotsky's proposals of the social nature of the human mind.

Published

1998-01-13

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