Pereživanie – Experiencing Mathematics

Abstract

In a lecture from the last year of his life, L. S. Vygotsky articulated a unit of analy-sis [edinica] that does not reduce knowing and learning to the individual: pereživanie, often transliterated as ‘experience’, sometimes, but incorrectly, as ‘emotional experience’. Pereživanie is an event in which we find the unity/identity [edinstvo] of person and environment; it always has practical, affective, and intel-lectual shading.