Vygotsky's (1993) "Fundamentals of Defectology" is a radical's handbook of deaf and disability studies. Vygotsky's overall research program views disabilities, including deafness, from an integrated biosocial and critical theory standpoint. In two movements, I introduce an "American Annals of the Deaf Special Issue" on…

This research studies the problems of defining the concept of motive of crime in terms of the psychological concept of motives of human behavior. The purpose of this research is to define the motive of crime (which is yet undefined in spite of the longstanding existence of criminology) and to improve existing scientific theories regarding the…

The article analyzes the transformation of the methodological toolkit for teaching humanities and sciences in the Russian Federation. The method of case study, being widely spread in modern higher education research, is used as an example to illustrate the attempts to implement the best practices of foreign educational technology into tertiary…

This paper aims to discuss the relevance that the concept of "perezhivanie" had for Soviet psychology and its implication for the development of topics that have been largely neglected both in Soviet psychology and in the Western Vygotskian tradition. According to the position defended in this paper, "perezhivanie" is not just…

This work outlines the historical background and implications for deaf-blind psychology of the so-called Zagorsk Experiment, which was conducted in the USSR in the early-to-mid-1970s. Pioneered by the Department of Psychology at Moscow State University, the experiment involved conducting extensive fundamental research and deploying a comprehensive…

Memory construction and national identity are key issues in our societies, as well as it is patriotism. How can we nowadays believe and give sense to traditional narrations that explain the origins of nations and communities? How do these narrations function in a process of globalization? How should we remember the recent past? In the construction…

This article is intended to acquaint the rank and file teacher, methods specialist, worker at teacher's advanced training institutes, and instructors of pedagogy at pedagogical higher educational institutions with the proceedings at the Fourth Congress of Psychologists. (JB)

The task of educational psychology is to create flexible but scientifically substantiated methods of determining personality traits and the degree of their development. Emphasis here is on the need for self discipline as a major objective in child rearing. (JB)

By archetype" the author means primordial image" or inborn forms of intuition." (DS)

This document is an English-language abstract (approximately 1,500 words) of a collective work, written mainly by researchers of the Philosophical Problem of Psychology, Section of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. It describes, analyzes, and illustrates by reference to the most recent developments, the principal…

There is no comprehensive understanding of the idea of personality in Soviet and Russian pedagogics. Past discussions about personality have focused on personality orientation as determined by the prevailing motives that explain the behavior and conduct of man. In soviet psychology, the nature of man is considered to be his relations to other men,…

Discussed are the growth and demise of pedology within the contexts of the (1) early history of child study in Europe, (2) influence of Vygotsky's writings on Soviet defectology, and (3) struggle of Soviet psychology for its Marxist-dialectical identity. Pedology is the scientific study of the complete child in all its facets, including the…