id
	13130
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/13130
Resource template
	Book
Resource class
	bibo:Book
Title
	Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes
Creator
	Vygotsky, Lev Semënovič
	Cole, Michael
Publisher
	Harvard Univ Press
Date
	1978
Language
	eng
Abstract
	The great Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky has long been recognized as a pioneer in developmental psychology. But somewhat ironically, his theory of development has never been well understood in the West. Mind in Society should correct much of this misunderstanding. Carefully edited by a group of outstanding Vygotsky scholars, the book presents a unique selection of Vygotskys important essays, most of which have previously been unavailable in English.The Vygotsky who emerges from these pages can no longer be glibly included among the neobehaviorists. In these essays he outlines a dialectical-materialist theory of cognitive development that anticipates much recent work in American social science. The mind, Vygotsky argues, cannot be understood in isolation from the surrounding society. Man is the only animal who uses tools to alter his own inner world as well as the world around him. From the handkerchief knotted as a simple mnemonic device to the complexities of symbolic language, society provides the individual with technology that can be used to shape the private processes of mind. In Mind in Society Vygotsky applies this theoretical framework to the development of perception, attention, memory, language, and play, and he examines its implications for education. The result is a remarkably interesting book that is bound to renew Vygotskys relevance to modern psychological thought.
Spatial Coverage
	Cambridge
Isbn
	978-0-674-57629-2
Number of pages
	159
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/LIUXIY35/item-list

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