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Direct linkWarford, Mark K. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Toward the end of his short life, Lev Vygotsky found himself teaching teachers in a remote part of the USSR. Though his influence as a developmental psychologist is well-established, little is known about his approach to teacher development. This article applies the researcher's core concept, the zone of proximal development to teacher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Theories
Towsey, Paula M. – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2009
This article presents what is possibly the first English translation of a 1930 manuscript related to Vygotsky's work (probably written by Vygotsky himself). This manuscript, the Zalkind Summary, is a five-point summary of his presentation to the First All-Union Congress on the Study of Human Behaviour in Leningrad in January 1930. This article…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology, Thinking Skills, English
Soviet Education, 1974
This issue, devoted to early childhood education, including day-care centers and kindergartens, contains an historical review, a statement on the current controversy over the status of sixth graders as preschoolers and several articles from two child psychologists on child development. (JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Day Care, Developmental Psychology
Roopnarine, Jaipaul L., Ed.; Carter, D. Bruce, Ed. – 1992
This collection of essays addresses the role of culture in the functioning of families and the socialization of children. Following an introduction by Irving Sigel, the 15 essays are: (1) "Parent-Child Interactions in Urban Indian Families in New Delhi: Are They Changing?" (Jaipaul Roopnarine and Ziarat Hossain); (2) "Chinese…
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Rearing, Cultural Influences, Developmental Psychology
Kabanova-Meller, E. N. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a book in which the author sums up her research on the problem of training and transfering various types of mental activity. The second part of the book deals with one of the most important problems of mental development, that of the evidences and conditions of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Developmental Psychology
Peer reviewedHolowinsky, Ivan Z. – International Journal of Special Education, 1988
This overview of Soviet developmental psychology and its influence on special education focuses on dialectical materialistic interpretations of behavior, socio-historical determinism, zones of proximal development, realization and enhancement of children's cognitive potential, influence of Jean Piaget's work, linking of mental retardation with…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Psychology, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology
Bozovic, L. I. – 1969
This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a three-part volume on the psychology of child personality development. In part one, the author shows that psychology is one of the most important scientific disciplines on which education is based, particularly because of its contribution to the scientific planning of…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development
