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Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

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ISBN-10: 0521528836

ISBN-13: 9780521528832

Edition: 2003

Authors: Alex Kozulin, Vladimir S. Ageyev, Suzanne M. Miller, Boris Gindis, John Seely Brown

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Innovative ideas in educational psychology, learning, and instruction, originally formulated by Russian psychologist and educator Lev Vygotsky, are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Russia. An international team of scholarly contributors provides comprehensive coverage of all the main concepts of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. They emphasize its importance for the understanding of child development, and propose specific classroom applications.
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/15/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 494
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Alex Kozulin began his investigation of Vygotsky's theory at the Moscow Institute of Psychology and continued it in Boston and then Jerusalem. He is the author of Psychology in Utopia: Toward a Social History of Soviet Psychology (MIT Press, 1984), Vygotsky's Psychology: A Biography of Ideas, and a coeditor of Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context.

Suzanne M. Miller is Senior Member of the Population Science Division of the Fox Chase Cancer Center. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

John Seely Brown is Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp and former director of its Palo AltoResearch Center (PARC), and co-author of The Social Life of Information.

List of contributors
Series Foreword
Introduction: sociocultural theory and education: students, teachers and knowledge
Concepts and Paradigms
Psychological tools and mediated learning
The zone of proximal development in Vygotsky's analysis of learning and instruction
Vygotsky's doctrine of scientific concepts: its role for contemporary education
Some cognitive tools of literacy
Dynamic assessment of the evolving cognitive functions in children
Development and Learning
Periods in child development: Vygotsky's perspective
Development through the lifespan: a neo-Vygotskian approach
Learning and development of preschool children from the Vygotskian perspective
The learning activity in the first years of schooling: the developmental path towards reflection
Remediation though education: socio/cultural theory and children with special needs
Sociocultural Theory Application in the Classroom
Cultural-historical theory and mathematics education
Socio/cultural theory and the practice of teaching historical concepts
Formation of learning activity and theoretical thinking in science teaching
How literature discussion shapes thinking: ZPDs for teaching/learning habits of the heart and mind
Beyond cognition: a Vygotskian perspective on emotionality and teachers' professional lives
Diverse Learners and Contexts of Education
Interpersonal communication and internalization in the second language classroom
Mediation in cognitive socialization: the influence of socioeconomic status
Cultural modeling: CHAT as a lens for understanding instructional discourse based on African-American English discourse patterns
The relations of learning and student social class: toward re-'socializing' sociocultural learning theory
Vygotsky in the mirror of cultural interpretations
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