252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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Lev Vygotsky was one of the most talented and brilliant of Soviet psychologists. Despite his tragically early death at the age of 38 his accomplishments are enormously impressive: he played a key role in restructuring the Psychological Institute of Moscow; set up two research laboratories in the major cities of the USSR; founded what we call special education; and authored some 180 works. His... Read more
1 Vygotsky and psychology: a debate within a debate 2 The laboratory as methodology 3 Practice: Vygotsky's tool-and-result methodology 4 The zone of proximal development: a psychological 5 Playing in/with the ZPD 6 Reform and revolution in the study of thinking and speech 7 Completing the historical Vygotsky 8 Logic and psychotherapy
Biography
Lois Holzman, Fred Newman
`This is a clearly written book with education students in mind. It provides the background to much of our owrk on childrens learning and is a gook introduction to a philosophical approach...' - Denny Mallows, Ripon & York St John Univ Coll.






