Table of Contents

Preface Harry Daniels 1. Reading Vygotsky Tony Burgess 2. A social psychology of special education Peter Evans 3. The individual and the organization Harry Daniels 4. Continuing the dialogue: Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and Lotman James V. Wertsch and Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka 5. Vygotsky's contribution to the development of psychology V.V. Davdov and V.P. Zinchenko 6. Peer interaction and the development of mathematical understandings: A new framework for research and educational practice Geoffrey B. Saxe, Maryl Gearhart, Mary Note and Pamela Paduano 7. The practice of assessment Ingrid Lunt 8. Learning in primary school Andrew Pollard 9. Learning English as an additional language in multilingual classrooms Josie Levine