Lev Vygotsky

Revolutionary Scientist

Lois Holzman, Fred Newman

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN: 9781138142558
• eBook ISBN: 9781000948455
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Lev Vygotsky was one of the most talented and brilliant of Soviet psychologists. Despite his tragically early death at the age of 38 his accomplishments are enormously impressive: he played a key role in restructuring the Psychological Institute of Moscow; set up two research laboratories in the major cities of the USSR; founded what we call special education; and authored some 180 works. His innovative theories of thought and speech are important not just for psychology but for other disciplines also. Yet even though his ideas have increasingly won popularity there remains a strong need for an accessible introduction to the man and his work. In Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist Lois Holzman and Fred Newman have written a clear introductory text suitable for undergraduate students. In so doing they have taken the opportunity to set straight the misunderstandings and misuses of Vygotsky's ideas. and his work.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Vygotsky and psychology: a debate within a debate
• 2 The laboratory as methodology
• 3 Practice: Vygotsky's tool-and-result methodology and psychology
• 4 The zone of proximal development: a psychological unit or a revolutionary unity?
• 5 Playing in/with the ZPD
• 6 Reform and revolution in the study of thinking and speech
• 7 Completing the historical Vygotsky
• 8 Logic and psychotherapy
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Name index
• Subject index