1st Edition

Lev Vygotsky:Revoltn Scientist

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

256 Pages
by Routledge

First Published in 1993. Vygotsky railed against the ‘aboutness’ that permeated both the form and content of the Western scientific, social-scientific and philosophical traditions they both inherited. This book was written as an introduction of Vygotsky life and works to college and university students.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Vygotsky and psychology; Chapter 2 The laboratory as methodology; Chapter 3 Practice; Chapter 4 The zone of proximal development; Chapter 5 Playing in/with the ZPD; Chapter 6 Reform and revolution in the study of thinking and speech; Chapter 7 Completing the historical Vygotsky; Chapter 8 Logic and psychotherapy;

Biography

Fred Newman, who trained in the philosophy of science, teaches at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy in New York. Lois Holzman, a developmental psychologist, also teaches at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, and at Empire State College, New York.