Performing Vygotsky Changing the ”Language- Games” of schools, organizations' and institutions

Science: post- positivism, empiricism Humanism: rationalistic, phenomenological Activism: de- and reconstructionism ObjectivitySubjectivityIntersubjectivityCommunity MaterialismIdealismNo Ism The individual The group & community

Completing, not competing Stimuli/response, yes and Person-centered communication, yes and playful construction of language and reality Psychology as a historical cultural dialectical enterprise. We recreate history by performing the construction of reality with one eye for the future, and one eye for to recognize how we can build on what other human beings have build and/or thought before us. Vygotsky and his work did not eliminate what was before him, Pavlov, Wertheimer, Piaget and others were completed in a respectful way. Modern: What leads to what? Late Modern: How does he/she understands it? Postmodern: What can we create together? BEFORE NOW TOMMORROW

Performing is completing Social norms and rules, natural gesture = operant behavior Individual meaning, intentions, cultural meaning = meaningful acting The common recreation of a social situation/intention and the performatory recreation of norms within a recreated and in collaboration build reality

To behave To act To perform Social Situation Natural gesture Social Situation + Intention + Cultural Norms The re-creation of a social situation/intention and the performatory re-creation of norms within a recreated and in collaboration build reality Modern Positivism Late Modern Rationalism Postmodern – the second modern Activism and Performance