Taca taca

In this occasion I'm going to write about Table Football or "Taca taca", the name of this game in my country, Chile. This game is a board game based on football, who plays on a spacial table with wooden players. I think we all know about it.

Although the origins of this game can be related with United Kingdom, France, Germany and Switzerland, I like the history of the origin of the game in Spain. Alexandre Finisterre, the alleged creator of the game, was injured during bombings in Madrid during Spanish civil war. When he saw so many kids in the hospital with him, where some of them can't walk or run, he think in the idea of the Table Football based on Table Tenis and create the game with the help of a friend who was a Basque carpenter.

Finisterre had to go into exile in France after Franco won the Civil War, and in the course he lost the paper of the patent, so we can't now how the dising or shape are. 

After to live in exile in Latin America, he make some changes in the structure of the game and he spread out across the continent. The "Taca taca" has quickly expanded.

In this days, the "Taca taca" could be played with two or four people making two teams. Each team controls four lines of  wooden players. The human players try to use this tiny players to hit the ball into the rival goalkeeper door.

The table usually had eigth lines of wooden players holders in horizontal bars, and the oficial order of the players are standard.

Line 1	Our goalkeeper	1 player	*
Line 2	Our defense	2 players	* *
Line 3	Attacks form counter team	3 players	* * *
Line 4	Our midfielders	5 players	* * * * *
Line 5	Midfielder of counter team	5 players	* * * * *
Line 6	Our forward	3 players	* * *
Line 7	Defense of counter team	2 players	* *
Line 8	Goalkeeper of counter team	1 player	*

Lev Vigotsky

Although I had heard about this author, I had not been familiar with his work so far. However, I can not say I completely understand his work, or that I share it, but I found interesting study. For the subject of Developmental Psychology I we have had to read it and is one of few texts that I have read with interest.

To comment a little about Lev Vigotsky (1896-1934), he was born into a middle-class Jewish family in Russia. According to a provision of the Tsarist regime, only 3% of students in universities could be Jews, despite this, Vygotsky could enter to the University and studied in parallel in two universities Law and History, Philosophy and Psychology, graduating in 1917 from both careers.

For Vigotsky its initial objectives were to organize a psychology with marxist bases and find in this solutions to social problems. For this decides to start from the notions of Marx and Engels that explain how man was taken to work creating tools, which when used in conjunction with others determine the appearance of language and conscience. Another idea which incorporates from these authors is that human conscience is determined by social and material conditions of life.

The fundamental idea of his work relates how human development and learning can be explained only in terms of social interaction. The social environment influences the development, as this is the internalization of cultural tools (like language) which initially did not belong to us, they belong to the human group in which we are born, which conveys the cultural products through the social interaction.

This psychologist, being the founder of cultural-historical psychology, has made ​​notable contributions to developmental psychology, and also in various topics such as the relationship between learning and human development, the relationship between language and thought, the understanding game as a psychological phenomenon, among others.