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Introduction to Vygotsky, Second Edition

• Edited by Harry Daniels

• Price: $34.95
• Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
• Pages: 336
• Published by: Routledge
• Publication Date: 14th April 2005
• ISBN: 978-0-415-32813-5

About the Book

The innovative theories of Lev Vygotsky on thought and speech have become increasingly popular over the last decade. An Introduction to Vygotsky provides students with an accessible overview of his work by combining reprints of key journal and text articles with editorial commentary and suggested further reading. Students will find this a useful single source of information covering material that is often difficult to access in college libraries

Table of Contents

N.J. Minick, The Development of Vygotsky's Thought: An Introduction, Thinking and speech. J.V. Wertsch, P.E. Tul'viste, L.S Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology. J. Valsiner, R. Van der Veer, On the social Nature of Human Cognition: an Analysis of the Shared Intellectual Roots of George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. A. Kozulin, The Concept of Activity in Soviet psychology: Vygotsky, His Disciples and His Critics. J. A. Cheyne, D. Tarulli, Dialogue, Difference and the "Third Voice" in the Zone of Proximal Development, Theory and Psychology. J. Lave, E. Wenger, Practice, Person and Social World. Y. Engeström, Non-scolae Sed Vitae Discimus: Toward Overcoming the Encapsulation of School Learning, Learning and Instruction. D. Bakhurst, Social Memory in Soviet Thought. M. Cole, Putting Culture in the Middle. M. Hedegaard, The Zone of Proximal Development as Basis for Instruction. C.D. Lee, Signifying in the Zone of Proximal Development. A. Sullivan Palinscar, Social Constructivist Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Annual Review of Psychology.