Learning and Development in Phenomenological Structuralism: Thinking Vygotsky via Chomsky

Journal Title: Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy - Year 2018, Vol 2, Issue 1

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Abstract:Building on structurationist theory of sociology, Vygotskyian sociocultural theory, Chomskyian cognitive linguistics, and postmodern and poststructural logic regarding the decentered subject and indeterminacy of meaning this work explores the origins and nature of human consciousness, cognition, social action, learning, and development within Paul C. Mocombe’s phenomenological structural sociology, phenomenological structuralism. The article attempts to synthesize Vygotskyian sociocultural theory with Chomskyian cognitive linguistics in order to offer a more complete understanding of human consciousness, action, cognition, learning, and development amidst the postmodern and post-structural attempt to decenter the subject. Keywords:Phenomenological Structuralism, Structurationism, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, Social Class Language Game

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Paul C. Mocomb e

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Paul C. Mocomb e (2018). Learning and Development in Phenomenological Structuralism: Thinking Vygotsky via Chomsky. Journal of Advances in Education and Philosophy, 2(1), 13-20. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-401688