Vygotsky's died of tuberculosis on June 11, 1934, when he was just 37. Still, Vygotsky is considered a formative thinker in psychology, and much of his work is still being discovered and explored ...

Vygotsky worked hand in hand with Alexander Luria, the founding father of Russian neuropsychology. Together they carried out a series of research cruises in developmental psychology, pedagogy and ...

The theoretical framework of Vygotsky entails specific understandings of learning, development, and the goal(s) of development. In Vygotsky's usage, the term obuchenie, frequently translated as ...

For Vygotsky, that self-directed language had all sorts of different functions, so a key one was planning out what you’re going to do. If you watch a small child playing with her toys, you'll ...

John Dewey and L. S. Vygotsky share similar ideas concerning the relationship of activity and learning/development, especially the roles everyday activities and social environment play in the ...

Vygotsky’s ideas embody many of the more positive sides of socialism, advocating a caring, paternal form of development which Sutton sees as a far-cry from the academic competitiveness of the ...

In Vygotsky’s framework, the “more knowledgeable other” is a term for someone who guides a learner through a new skill. This can be anybody with a mastery of the skill being taught.

He died young, but Russian theorist Vygotsky helped to inform practice in many ways, says Linda Pound Lev Vygotsky was a Russian Jew, born in 1896 – the same year as Jean Piaget. Unlike Piaget, who ...

By Luis C Moll (Routledge, 20.99, 978041589)Psychologist Lev Vygotsky has influenced educational research and scholarship in a wide range of areas including child development, language and literacy ...