Overview
- Proposes a holistic approach to child development that, while actually historical, will be new to the vast majority of contemporary readers
- Provides the basis for integrating “partial” sciences of development like psychology and pediatrics into a single science of a natural whole: the developing child
- Presents the work of an important teacher, thinker, and writer in its real historical context and on its own terms
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research (PCHR, volume 7)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides both a lost last word and a firm first foundation: seven lectures, given in the last months in the life of the Soviet thinker, teacher, and writer L.S. Vygotsky, offer us the most comprehensive and developed form of his thoughts on the child, expressed in the most fundamental and even popular form that Vygotsky himself used with his beginner-level students. As the title of Vygotsky’s course indicates, these are foundations upon which cultural-historical researchers can rebuild the lost science of “pedology”, a holistic approach to child development based on the dynamic unity of physical and mental development.
Volume One includes translations of seven of Vygotsky’s lectures that reflect his approach to pedology; the method of pedology and the “methodics” of the unit of analysis; the role of heredity and social environment in child development; and general laws of development in childhood that will help parents and teachers understand the way the child’s endocrine system, nervous system, and mind change as the child enters a culture and learns to make history.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
About the Translators
David Kellogg is an assistant professor at Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea, where he teaches courses on language and linguistics. He and his former students have published ten volumes of Vygotsky translations in Korea. He is the author of The Great Globe: Narrative and Dialogue in Story-telling with Halliday,Vygotsky, and Shakespeare.
Nikolai Veresov is currently an associate professor at Monash University. He has published widely on Vygotsky in many languages, including Vygotsky’s native Russian. He is the author of Undiscovered Vygotsky (1999), and the translator of Vygotsky’s “Consciousness as a Problem in the Psychology of Behaviour” (1999) and “The Role of Play in the Development of the Child” (2016). He has also translated D.B. Elkonin’s work on periodizing child development (2000).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: L. S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works
Book Subtitle: Volume 1. Foundations of Pedology
Authors: L. S. Vygotsky
Translated by: David Kellogg, Nikolai Veresov
Series Title: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0528-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0527-0Published: 02 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-0530-0Published: 21 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-0528-7Published: 01 January 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-1530
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1549
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 159
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Psychology, Infancy and Early Childhood Development, Child and School Psychology, Sociology of Culture, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education