Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky’s important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English.\ The Vygotsky who emerges from these...
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The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society, corrects much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotsky 's important essays. Kevin Connolly - Nature This little book is an intellectual excitement; it abounds with all manner of ideas, insights, and novel formulations.
IntroductionMichael Cole and Sylvia ScribnerBiographical Note on L. S. VygotskyBasic Theory and Data1. Tool and Symbol in Child Development2. The Development of Perception and Attention3. Mastery of Memory and Thinking4. Internalization of Higher Psychological Functions5. Problems of MethodEducational Implications6. Interaction between Learning and Development7. The Role of Play in Development8. The Prehistory of Written LanguageAfterwordVera John-Steiner and Ellen SoubermanNotesVygotsky's WorksIndex
\ Contemporary PsychologyThis is a landmark book, compulsory reading for students of developmental and adult cognition… Mind in Society should stimulate an awakened interest in Vygotsky as a contemporary force rather than a figure of historical interest.\ — Ann L. Brown\ \ \ \ \ \ NatureThis little book is an intellectual excitement; it abounds with all manner of ideas, insights, and novel formulations.\ — Kevin Connolly\ \ \ \ New York Review of BooksNow, at long last, we have a representative selection of [Vygotsky's] theoretical essays, in a new collection prepared by Michael Cole and his co-workers, under the ingenious title Mind in Society… It pieces together selections from four of Vygotsky's writings: chiefly, an unpublished monograph on 'Tool and Symbol in Children's Development' dating from 1930, and a chapter on 'The History of the Development of Higher Psychological Functions' issued previously in Russian in 1960. However, it has two solid virtues. It was prepared with the active collaboration of A. R. Luria, so it can certainly claim to be authoritative. And it provides the sense we have long needed of Vygotsky's over-all theoretical enterprise, of which his studies on thought and language are one, but only one, aspect… [The book] puts [his] ideas into a broader theoretical context, and permits us at last to sort out for ourselves how Vygotsky's work relates to that of his contemporaries and successors in the West. Most particularly, it clarifies the central role that Vygotsky allots to language and symbolic thought in shaping the structure of adult mental life.\ — Stephen Toulmin\ \ \ \ \ \ Psychology TodayThis selection of Vygotsky's important writings (most were previously unavailable in English) offers the Western reader a new appreciation of the seminal contributions of one of Russia's most influential psychologists.\ \ \
