Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Lev Vygotsky’s statement on the development of the higher psychological functions— from the interpsychological form to the intrapsychological form—is discussed in the article. I describe the changing of Vygotsky’s interest from nonverbal to verbal communication and his emphasis on verbal communication as an only kind of interpsychological function. I then analyze works that show the importance ...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Whorf and Vygotsky Revisited

Psychologists often speak about language and meaning in terms of individual "words" that label "things" in the world. Such expressions emerge not only in casual speech, but also pervade the scholarly literature. Influential works such as Roger Brown's (1958) Words and Things lend support to this tendency in their titles, if not always in their detailed argu ments. Speaking in this way perpetuat...

Vygotsky and Piaget: scientific concepts

Jean Piaget’s so-called biological perspective is often paired with the viewpoint of Lev Vygotsky when we speak of learning in humans. Both authors acknowledged the active role of children in the construction of knowledge. However, they differ in that, unlike Piaget, Vygotsky believed that the assimilation of new information does not have to wait for an appropriate level of development but must...

Versions of Vygotsky

The current prominent influence of the theories of L. S. Vygotsky on studies of education, particularly of pedagogic practice, requires a re-examination. The dominance of deficient editions of his writings has had regrettable consequences such as a misplaced reading of the ‘zone of proximal development’. The publication of his recent, albeit incomplete, Collected Works in English affords an opp...