1st Edition

Lev Vygotsky Revolutionary Scientist

By Lois Holzman, Fred Newman Copyright 1993
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

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.