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Lev Vygotsky

Lev Vygotsky. Kristen Wright Period 2. “Through others, we become ourselves.” . “People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.” .

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Lev Vygotsky

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  1. Lev Vygotsky Kristen Wright Period 2. “Through others, we become ourselves.” “People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”

  2. About Vygotsky: • Lev Vygotsky was born November 17, 1896 • He died June 11, 1934. • Lev Vygotsky was born in Orsha, a city in the western region of the Russian Empire. He attended Moscow State University, where he graduated with a degree in law in 1917. He studied a range of topics white attending university, including sociology, linguistics, psychology and philosophy. However, his formal work in psychology did not begin until 1924 when he attended the Institute of Psychology in Moscow. • Vygostky'slife was cut short in 1934, when he died of tuberculosis at 38 years old.

  3. His Career? • Lev Vygotsky was a prolific writer, He published six books on psychology topics in just ten years. His interests were diverse, but centered on topics of child development and education. He also explored topics as the psychology of art and language development.

  4. Theriores • •Zone of Proximal Development • is the distance between the actual development level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers.", it is the range of abilities that a person can perform with assistance, but cannot perform independently. :

  5. Contributions to Psychology: • Lev Vygotsky is considered a seminal thinker in psychology, and much of his work is still being discovered and explored today. While he was a contemporary of Skinner, Pavlov, Freud and Piaget, his work never attained their level during his lifetime. Part of this was because his work was criticized by the Communist Party in Russia, and so his writings were largely inaccessible. • His work has continued to grow in influence since his death, particularly in the fields of developmental and educational psychology.

  6. Video: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BX2ynEqLL4

  7. Cited Sources: • http://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/quotations/vygotsky.html • Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge: MA: Harvard University Press. • Vygotsky, L.S. (1986). Thought and language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (original work published in 1934). • Vygotsky, L.S. (1987). Thinking and speech. (N. Minick. Trans.). New York: Plenum Press. • If you are interested in reading some of Lev Vygotsky's works, many of his writings are available in full-text format at the Vygotsky Internet Archive • http://psychology.about.com/od/zindex/g/zone-proximal.htm

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