Vygotsky Summer School

Russian Vygotsky Summer School 2009 “Total Immersion in the Golden Key School Methodology

2009俄羅斯特別學習旅遊行程： 2009維高斯基夏令營 (核心行程2009年6月19-26日+前後自費旅遊延伸)

維高斯基(1896-1934)是俄羅斯兒童發展、幼教、特教、心理學、思想和言語、語言和文化相關領域大師，本夏令營由其孫女莫斯科國立人文大學РГГУ (Российский Государственный Гуманитарный университет)維高斯基心理研究所(The L.S.Vygotsky Psychology Institute)主任Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova帶領其教學研究團隊進行教學參觀等活動。本團重點在自助教學參訪，不在豪華的旅遊享受，前後旅遊延伸，可另商議規劃。

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Russian Vygotsky Summer School 2009

“Total Immersion in the Golden Key School Methodology”

Place: Belaya Kalytva, Russia

Director, Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova (granddaughter of L. S. Vygotsky)

June 19 – 26, 2009

Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova, Director

Russian State University for the Humanities

Miusskaya Square 6

12567 Moscow, Russia

Phone: International number + 7 (495) 250 6147

Fax; International number + 7 (495) 973 4434

International Directors:

Dorothy Robbins at dot.robbins@gmail.com

+ Elina Lampert Shepel at ellampert@gmail.com

You are invited to participate in the 2009 Vygotsky Summer School, to take place in Belaya Kalytva, Russia from June 19-26, 2009. This summer school will take place in a Golden Key elementary school, with professors/staff/students from the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, and others, attending. We will join the staff and students/parents in the village of Belaya Kalytva (approx. 26 hours south of Moscow), and participants will stay in one hotel, and will come to the school each day for the events. The Program Committee will prepare an overview of the Golden Key concept by introducing the curriculum for various levels in depth, according to the different grade levels of instruction, from early childhood until around 11 years of age. Participants will have the opportunity for participation, presentations, questions, role-playing themselves, and learning about how a Vygotskian methodology is practiced in education in Russia. You will also have the unique opportunity of becoming acquainted with the Vygotsky family/and team today. Participants will be immersed in how the Golden Key elementary school environments are created, within an integrated curriculum, understanding how the ZPD is interpreted.

Dates: June 19 – 26, 2009.

Place: Belaya Kalytva, Russia

Travelling Information: Participants will have two options to reach Belaya Kalytva, Russia:

Arrive in Moscow a couple of days early (especially for the time change adjustment, and the police registration….this registration cannot happen on weekends.). Those of us arriving in Moscow, and the Summer School staff/students from the Vygotsky Institute of Psychology, will be taking the overnight train from Moscow to Belaya Kalytva on June 19th, arriving around noon the next morning. Participants will pay for the train ticket individually, not included in the registration fees. If you select this program, we will leave Belaya Kalytva mid-afternoon for a train to Moscow on June 26th. We will be working with you individually about your stay in Moscow that evening and your return flight the next day, or later.

The other alternative is the following: Fly to Rostov-on-Don (or simply Rostov, Russia) directly.

You will be responsible for the cost of the transfer from Rostov to Belaya Kalytva, with our help.

The detailed information will be provided. We are hoping that a small group of international and Russian participants will be willing to embark on a real adventure, knowing that we will not have all of the comforts of home. And, yet, the rewards can be tremendous in terms of understanding how Vygotskian methodology is practiced in education in Russia, in the Golden Key Schools. You will also be involved in discussions on establishing a viable international network that begins to understand each other from different perspectives, and you will have an exciting opportunity of developing cross-cultural collaboration. You will have two options upon arriving in Russia: You can come to Moscow first, or you can fly directly to Rostov-on-Don, where you will be met and taken to Belaya Kalytva (with additional transfer fees applying). We will all meet and begin the Summer School 2009 in Belaya Kalytva in the early afternoon of June 20th. Please bring your swimming suits for afternoon swims!

Price: (with no exceptions):

Regular registration fee: $200

Student registration fee (for students under 30): $100

IVS member fee: $150

The registration fee will include printed materials, workshops, all lunches, tours around Belaya Kalytva, welcoming party, and a banquet, and bus transfers from the hotel to the Golden Key school each day.

You will be responsible for: your visa application, flight to/from Moscow or Rostov-on-Don, transfer from/to airport , hotel in Moscow and/or hotel in Belaya Kalytva (which will be arranged for the group), international health insurance, and evening meals. Due to the international financial situation, all prices are subject to change. We are keeping the registration as low as possible.

Certificate: If you are engaged in the entire course, you will receive a certificate of participation, which will be personally signed by the daughter of L. S. Vygotsky, Gita L’vovna Vygodskya.

Deadlines: In order for the Vygotsky Summer School 2009 to take place, we will need to have your registration form, and flight information [scanned and e-mailed], by May 15, 2009. There must be at least 15 participants, with plane tickets purchased for the Summer School to take place. Once we hear from you, you will be sent an application form. And, once we receive that form, together with a scanned copy of your airline ticket, we will begin working with you individually. Remember that you will need around one month for the Russian visa process.

However, if we do not reach this number of participants, please know that you can attend the seminar in Belaya Kalytva on your own.

Information: Please send out this flyer to as many colleagues/students/staff/all, as soon as possible. We will be happy to send you more detailed information once we hear from you. And, if you decide to participate in the 2009 Summer School, please know that you will receive step-by-step information on how to obtain a visa, travel information, information on how to rent an apartment in Moscow, etc. And, if you arrive in Moscow first, upon request, you can receive a Russian student advisor to meet you at the airport and help you during your stay in Moscow.

The student advisor will speak English, and hopefully you will be able to make a financial offering to that student after all services are rendered. And, please do not come to Russia without international health insurance. You can check the STA website for reasonable prices.

We will be happy to send you the registration form as soon as we hear from you. Once we receive verification of a paid plane ticket (scanned and e-mailed), we will begin working with you individually. The registration fee will be paid once you are in Russia. You can be sure that we will do everything in our power to make your stay in Russia most enjoyable and profitable.

We look forward to welcoming you in Russia in June 2009!

With good wishes,

Prof. Dr. Elena Kravtsova, Director

Russian State University for the Humanities

Miusskaya Square 6

12567 Moscow, Russia

Phone: International number + 7 (495) 250 6147

Fax; International number + 7 (495) 973 4434

International Directors:

Dorothy Robbins at dot.robbins@gmail.com

+ Elina Lampert Shepel at ellampert@gmail.com