The Cambridge companion to Vygotsky / edited by Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, James V. Wertsch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daniels, Harry.

Cole, Michael, 1938-

Wertsch, James V.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Vygotskiĭ, L. S.

Psychologists--Soviet Union.

Psychologists.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

xi, 462 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

L. S. Vygotsky was an early twentieth-century Russian psychologist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early twenty-first century. His nondeterministic, nonreductionist 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.

Contents:

Vygotsky in Context

1 Vygotsky in Context: 1900-1935 / Rene Van Der Veer 21

2 Vygotsky's Demons / David Bakhurst 50

3 An Interesting Resemblance: Vygotsky, Mead, and American Pragmatism / Anne Edwards 77

4 Vygotsky, Mead, and the New Sociocultural Studies of Identity / Dorothy Holland, William Lachicotte, Jr. 101

5 Vygotsky on Thinking and Speaking / Vera P. John-Steiner 136

Readings of Vygotsky

6 Terminology in L. S. Vygotsky's Writings / Boris G. Meshcheryakov 155

7 Mediation / James V. Wertsch 178

8 Vygotsky and Culture / Michael Cole, Natalia Gajdamaschko 193

9 Thought and Word: The Approaches of L. S. Vygotsky and G. G. Shpet / Vladimir P. Zinchenko 212

10 The Development of Children's Conceptual Relation to the World, with Focus on Concept Formation in Preschool Children's Activity / Mariane Hedegaard 246

11 Inside and Outside the Zone of Proximal Development: An Ecofunctional Reading of Vygotsky / Pablo Del Rio, Amelia Alvarez 276

Applications of Vygotsky's Work

12 Pedagogy / Harry Daniels 307

13 Sociocultural Theory and Education of Children with Special Needs: From Defectology to Remedial Pedagogy / Alex Kozulin, Boris Gindis 332

14 Putting Vygotsky to Work: The Change Laboratory as an Application of Double Stimulation / Yrjo Engestrom 363.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-425) and index.

ISBN:

0521831040

9780521831048

0521537878

9780521537872

OCLC:

71350433

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