Vygotsky in perspective

by Miller, Ronald

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Title Statements

Full title :Vygotsky in perspective / Ronald Miller.

Summary

Lev Vygotsky has acquired the status of one of the grand masters in psychology. Following the English translation and publication of his Collected Works there has been a new wave of interest in Vygotsky, accompanied by a burgeoning of secondary literature. Ronald Miller argues that Vygotsky is increasingly being 'read' and understood through secondary sources and that scholars have claimed Vygotsky as the foundational figure for their own theories, eliminating his most distinctive contributions and distorting his theories. Miller peels away the accumulated layers of commentary to provide a clearer understanding of how Vygotsky built and developed his arguments. In an in-depth analysis of the last three chapters of Vygotsky's book Thinking and Speech, Miller provides a critical interpretation of the core theoretical concepts that constitute Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, including the development of concepts, mediation, the zone of proximal development, conscious awareness, inner speech, word meaning and consciousness.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011

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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiii, 451 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780511736582, 0511736584, 9781107001862, 1107001862, 9781107412477, 1107412471
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511736582
oclc:ocn967413032
LC Classification:BF109.V95
Dewey Decimal:150.92

Introduction -- A thematic overview -- The development of concepts -- The development of scientific concepts -- The development of scientific concepts : critique -- Thought and word -- Michael Cole : artifact mediated action, setting the record straight -- James V. Wertsch : cultural tools and mediated action, getting it wrong -- James V. Wertsch : mediation and the zone of proximal development -- The essential commentators -- Vygotsky : mediation.

Subjects

History Psychologie -- Histoire. -- URSS Psychologists Psychologists -- Soviet Union Psychologues -- URSS Psychology Psychology -- History. -- Soviet Union Soviet Union Vygotskiĭ, L. S., (Lev Semenovich)