Lev Vygotsky

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky O.S. November 5] 1896 – June 11, 1934 was the Soviet psychologist, call for his defecate on psychological development in children. He published on a diverse range of subjects, and from institution views as his perspective changed over the years. Among his students was Alexander Luria as well as Kharkiv school of psychology.

He is call for his concept of the zone of proximal development ZPD: the distance between what a student apprentice, new employee, etc. can do on their own, and what they canwith the help of someone more knowledgeable approximately the activity. Vygotsky saw the ZPD as a measure of skills that are in the process of maturing, as supplement to measures of developing that only look at a learner's independent ability.

Also influential are his workings on the relationship between Linguistic communication and thought, the development of language, and a general view of development through actions and relationships in a socio-cultural environment. This can be found in numerous of his essays.

Vygotsky is the indicated of great scholarly dispute. There is a office of scholars who see parts of Vygotsky's current legacy as distortions and who are going back to Vygotsky's manuscripts in an effort to make Vygotsky's legacy more true to his actual ideas.

Influence worldwide

In the A. N. Leont'ev, personality Lidiya Bozhovich, A. N. Leont'ev, will and volition A. N. Leont'ev, A. N. Leont'ev and psychology of action Zaporozhets. Andrey Puzyrey elaborated the ideas of Vygotsky in respect of psychotherapy and even in the broader context of deliberate psychological intervention psychotechnique, in general. Laszlo Garai founded a Vygotskian research group.

In North America, Vygotsky's work was known from the end of the 1920s through a series of pblications in English, but it did not have a major case on research in general.[] In 1962 a translation of his posthumous 1934 book, Thinking and Speech, published with the title,Thought and Language, did notto conform the situation considerably.[] It was only after an eclectic compilation of partly rephrased and partly translated working of Vygotsky and his collaborators, published in 1978 under Vygotsky's name as Mind in Society, that the Vygotsky boom started in the West: originally, in North America, and later, coming after or as a or done as a reaction to a question of. the North American example, spread to other regions of the world.[] This explanation of Vygotskian science is typically associated with the label of its chief proponents Michael Cole, James Wertsch, their associates and followers, and is relatively well known under the title of "cultural-historical activity theory" aka CHAT or "activity theory". Scaffolding, a concept exposed by Wood, Bruner, and Ross in 1976, is somewhat related to the conviction of ZPD, although Vygotsky never used the term.