The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky

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Title:

The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky

Author:

Daniels, Harry.

ISBN:

9780521831048

9780521537872

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Physical Description:

xi, 462 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Vygotsky in context : 1900-1935 / René van der Veer -- Vygotsky's demons / David Bakhurst -- An interesting resemblance : Vygotksy, Mead and American pragmatism / Anne Edwards -- Vygotsky, Mead, and the new sociocultural studies of identity / Dorothy Holland and William Lachicotte, Jr. -- Vygotsky on thinking and speaking / Vera P. John-Steiner -- Terminology in L.S. Vygotsky's writings / Boris S. Meshcheryakov -- Mediation / James V. Wertsch -- Vygotsky and culture / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko -- Thought and word : the approaches of L.S. Vygotsky and G.G. Shpet / Vladimir P. Zinchenko -- The development of children's conceptual relation to the world, with focus on concept formation in preschool children's activity / Mariane Hedegaard -- Inside and outside the Zone of proximal development : an ecofunctional reading of Vygotsky / Pablo del Rio and Amelia Álvarez -- Pedagogy / Harry Daniels -- Sociocultural theory and education of children with special needs : from defectology to remedial pedagogy / Alex Kozulin and Boris Gindis -- Putting Vygotsky to work : the change laboratory as an application of double stimulation / Yrjö Engeström.

Abstract:

"L. S. Vygotsky was an early twentieth century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early twenty first century. His non-deterministic, non-reductionist account of the formation of mind provides current theorietical developments with a broadly drawn yet very powerful sketch of the ways in which humans shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and historical conditions. The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky is a comprehensive text that provides students, academics, and practioners with a critical perspective on Vygotsky and his work." -- Publisher description.

Personal Subject:

Vygotskiĭ, L. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934.

Subject Term:

Psychologists -- Soviet Union.

Added Author:

Daniels, Harry.

Cole, Michael, 1938-

Wertsch, James V.

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2006029810-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006029810-d.html
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/2006029810-t.html

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L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His non-deterministic, non-reductionist account of the formation of mind provides current theoretical developments with a broadly drawn yet very powerful sketch of the ways in which humans shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and historical conditions. This dialectical conception of development insists on the importance of genetic or developmental analysis at several levels. The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky is a comprehensive text that provides students, academics, and practitioners with a critical perspective on Vygotsky and his work.