Study activity according to V.V.Repkin: a critical approach under the perspective of the Subjectivity theory

Abstract

The article approaches from the theoretical point of view, two fundamental questions. First place, some of the psychological and didactic presuppositions of the Activity theory and its importance in the organization of processes under the Developmental perspective and the Elkonin-Davidov system, from the contributions of V.V.Repkin. Secondly, the critical analysis of V. V. Repkin ́s view of such conception under Subjectivity theory scope. One concludes that the works of V.V.Repkin, attached to Study Activity, deserves to be recognized as an important support in the field of psychology and Marxist didactic of that time with contributions still occurring to these days. It has incurred in philosophical and conceptual mistakes which could be considered expression of a time and of a specific moment in the development of psychological and didactic science in the soviet period. Based on the Subjectivity theory, the main critics to V.V.Repkin’s work about Study Activity are: the character, at least apparently determinist of the objective activity (external) in relation to the subjective one (internal); the understanding of Study Activity as internalization process of knowledge, thus negating the generative and creative character of the subject who learns; the predominance of the cognitive character of didactic processes, hence denying the unity of the symbolic and the emotional in the constitution of the subjectivity; the negation of thepupil as subject of the own activity.