Vygotsky for Educators [Paperback]

The first book to present the contemporary Vygotskian approach to learning and development from birth through adolescence to English-speaking educators.This volume offers the first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Vygotskian approach to learning and development for English-speaking educators. Yuriy V. Karpov explores the practical applications of this approach from birth through adolescence and shows its advantages over traditional and constructivist education.This volume offers the first comprehensive introduction to the contemporary Vygotskian approach to learning and development for English-speaking educators. Yuriy V. Karpov explores the practical applications of this approach from birth through adolescence and shows its advantages over traditional and constructivist education.Lev Vygotsky's approach to children's learning and development centers on adult mediation: adults engage children in age-appropriate activities and promote in this context the development of new motives and tools for thinking, problem solving, and self-regulation. Although this approach has earned widespread recognition in the global scientific community, English-speaking educators remain relatively unfamiliar with its contemporary elaborations for practical application. Yuriy V. Karpov offers the first comprehensive English introduction to contemporary elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas and their practical applications from birth through adolescence. He demonstrates the advantages of the Vygotskian approach over both traditional and constructivist education. This volume will prove an invaluable resource for educators and students in teacher education programs, as well as for everyone interested in educational and developmental psychology.Introduction: 'there is nothing more practical than a good theory'; Part I. Mediation from Birth through Adolescence: 1. The Vygotskian notion of mediation as the major determinant of children's learning and development; 2. First year of life:l£,