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An introduction to Vygotsky

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Additional Authors

Daniels, Harry.

Description

ix, 290 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Vygotsky's legacy is an exciting but often confusing fusion of ideas. An Introduction to Vygotsky provides students with an accessible overview of his work combining reprints of key journal and text articles with editorial commentary and suggested further reading. Harry Daniels explores Vygotsky's work against a backdrop of political turmoil in the developing USSR.
Major elements discussed include the use of the "culture" concept in social development theory and the implications of Vygotsky's theories for teaching, learning and assessment. Academics and students at all levels will find this an essential key source of information.

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Collected Work.

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Contents

Introduction: Psychology in a social world / Harry Daniels -- 1. The development of Vygotsky's thought: an introduction to Thinking and Speech / Norris Minick -- 2. L.S. Vygotsky and contemporary developmental psychology / James V. Wertsch and Peeter Tulviste -- 3. Pragmatism and dialectical materialism in language development / Lois Hood Holzman -- 4. The concept of activity in Soviet psychology: Vygotsky, his disciples and critics / Alex Kozulin -- 5. The outer word and inner speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the internalization of language / Caryl Emerson -- 6. Practice, person, social world / Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger -- 7. Non scolae sed vitae discimus: toward overcoming the encapsulation of school learning / Yrjo Engestrom -- 8. The zone of proximal development as basis for instruction / Mariane Hedegaard -- 9. Social memory in Soviet thought / David Bakhurst --
10. Assisted assessment: a taxonomy of approaches and an outline of strengths and weaknesses / Joseph C. Campione -- 11. Joint involvement episodes as context for development / H. Rudolph Schaffer.

ISBN

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95032749

OCLC

ocm32925091

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries