Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Joy - GoodreadsA classic. I especially appreciated the chapter on play. Looking at play as a means to gratify a child's need is fascinating. I'll have to research this more. Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Lawrence Linnen - GoodreadsFive years ago, at the urging of Vygotsky's student Alexander Luria, we agreed to edit a collection of Vygotsky's essays which would reflect the general theoretical enterprise of which the study of ... Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Sally - GoodreadsI found bits of this tough going, but it has been an important influence on my teaching. Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Crystal - GoodreadsAlthough the editors' Marxist take on everything felt forced, the theories of Vygotsky himself still seem fresh and relevant. I have always tried to keep in mind the zone of proximal development when ... Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Mary - GoodreadsIt's hard not to look at this as sloppy research from outdated psychology [in the introduction, Cole and Scribner remind us that “the style of experimentation in these essays represents” a difference ... Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Craig - GoodreadsThis is some pretty steep stuff. I don't have much of a background in psychology but read this book for a grad level Theory of Learning class. I found this book hard to read because I am not familiar ... Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Scott Ford - GoodreadsAnother book of personal note. Human development within social context. Zone of proximal development (ZPD), and all. Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Andrea - GoodreadsI like how Vygotsky understood that there was something more to learning than just learning. He just took learning to a new level by considering development. Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - lilly - GoodreadsTotally weird soviet psych developmental theories from the 1920s and 30s, kernels of which have gone on to be incredibly productive and influential in educational theory, sociology, and anthropology. For advancement readings. Read full review
Review: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
User Review - Vaughn - GoodreadsI take in interest in Vygotsky's work primarily because he seeks to rescue experimental psychology from a) Cartesianism/cognitivism/the "theater of the mind" on the one hand, and b) A "naturalist ... Read full review
