Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521528836
• ISBN13: 9780521528832
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A must for professionally-trained teachers

After 30 years of teaching, I was looking for a book that would help me evaluate my teaching experiences as well as give me some new perspectives and ideas. This excellent collection of the findings of recent research based on Vygotsky's brilliant work has provided me with both great insight and appreciation of my teaching career as well as the verification of my teaching instincts and the determination to follow through on what I feel are the best methods to use when teaching in today's multi-cultural learning environments.