Lev Vygotsky : revolutionary scientist

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Lev Vygotsky : revolutionary scientist

Fred Newman and Lois Holzman

(Critical psychology)

Routledge, 1993

  • : hard
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliography : p. [220]-231 and name & subject indexes

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Volume

: hard ISBN 9780415064415

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • 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
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415064422

Description

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 innovative theories of thought and speech are important not just for psychology but for other disciplines also. Yet even though his ideas have increasingly won popularity there remains a strong need for an accessible introduction to the man and his work. In Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist Lois Holzman and Fred Newman have written a clear introductory text suitable for undergraduate students. In so doing they have taken the opportunity to set straight the misunderstandings and misuses of Vygotsky's ideas. and his work

Table of Contents

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

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