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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Lois Holzman and Fred Newman are both at the East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy, New York. Lois Holzman is also at Empire State College, SUNY.
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This review is from: Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist (Critical Psychology Series) (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 can not be understood 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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organized contradictoriness, learning leading development, ecologically valid psychology, learning that leads development, revolutionary psychologists, learning leads development, social therapy group, historical child, determining totality, human life space, hardware store tools, changing totalities, egocentric speech, spontaneous concepts, perceptible process, mental mist, revolutionary scientist, sociohistorical psychology, revolutionary activity, societal behavior, dialectical historical materialism, proximal development, social speech, dialectical unity, imaginary situation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotsky on page 7, Back Matter, and Index
- Thought and Language - Revised Edition by Lev S. Vygotsky in Back Matter, and Index
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn in Back Matter
- Revolt Against Dualism (Carus Lectures) by Arthur O. Lovejoy in Back Matter
- Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind by Lois Holzman on 13 pages
- Performing Psychology: A Postmodern Culture of the Mind by Lois Holzman on 11 pages
- End Of Knowing by Fred Newman on 7 pages
- The End of Knowing: A New Developmental Way of Learning by Fred Newman on 5 pages
- Psychological Investigations: A Clinician's Guide to Social Therapy by Lois Holzman on 4 pages
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