An Introduction to VygotskyHarry Daniels 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. |
Contents
Pragmatism and dialectical materialism in language | 75 |
Vygotsky | 99 |
Bakhtin Vygotsky | 123 |
Practice person social world | 143 |
The zone of proximal development as basis for instruction | 171 |
Social memory in Soviet thought | 196 |
a taxonomy of approaches and | 219 |
Joint involvement episodes as context for development | 251 |
Name index | 281 |
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ability action activity theory adult Alexei Leontiev analysis approach assessment Bakhtin behavior Cambridge Child Development communities of practice concept of activity concrete consciousness criticism cultural Davydov Developmental Psychology dynamic assessment Engeström environment evaluation everyday example experience Harvard University higher mental functions historical human Ilyenkov individual infants inner speech instruction internalization involved Kharkov group knowledge Kozulin L.S. Vygotsky language Lave and Wenger legitimate peripheral participation Leontiev Lev Vygotsky Luria Marxist memory ment metacognitive mind moon Moscow mothers nature object performance phases phenomena philosophy of language Piaget play problem processes proximal development psychological tools relations relationship Rogoff role school learning scientific concepts semiotic skills social interaction social practice Soviet psychology specific strategy structure task teacher teaching tests theoretical theory Thinking and Speech thought traditional understanding verbal Voloshinov Vygotskian Vygotsky argued Vygotsky's Wertsch word meaning zone of proximal