- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (May 10 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0415064422
- ISBN-13: 978-0415064422
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 390 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,071,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`This is a clearly written book with education students in mind. It provides the background to much of our owrk on childrens learning and is a gook introduction to a philosophical approach...' - Denny Mallows, Ripon & York St John Univ Coll.
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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
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Where is Vygotsky?, Oct 11 2005
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This review is from: Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (Paperback)
"Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist" by Fred Newman and Lois Holzman purports to be a clear introduction to Vygotsky and his ideas but it's actually a muddled, mish-mosh in which Vygotsky's discoveries get lost in a sea of philosophical, political, and psychological jargon. For example, the authors devote pages to discussing the "Zone of Proximal Development," a concept central to understanding Vygotsky's contributions to learning theory, but never bother to explain or define it for the reader. Moreover, the authors have an alarming axe to grind. Fired up by revolutionary zeal, they want to show that Vygotsky's ideas are thoroughly Marxian and are valueless in any other context. Reading the book has something of the feeling of being invited to a seminar on financial planning and then discovering that the seminar is a poorly disguised infomercial for an expensive and unremunerative annuity. Readers searching for a lucid introduction to Vygotsky should look elsewhere.
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