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Vygotsky & activity theory

Vygotsky
by Cristina Guerras and Ricardo Schütz

Vytgotsky's life
by Gita L. Vygodskaya
Translated from the Russian language by Ilya Gindis

Vygotsky's Distinction Between Lower and Higher Mental Functions and Recent Studies on Infant Cognitive Development
Eugene Subbotsky

Vygotsky page of the Virtual Faculty

Vygotsky and Social Development Theory
A short quicktime movie discussing Vygotsky's theory of learning can be found here
Greg Kearsley

The zone of proximal development and its implications for learning and teaching
In G. Wells (1999) Dialogic inquiry: Towards a sociocultural practice and theory of education.  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Review and Analysis of Vygotsky's Thought and Language
Alexis Benson

Talk of saying, showing, gesturing, and feeling in Wittgenstein and Vygotsky
John Shotter

Beyond the Individual-Social Antimony in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky
Michael Cole & James V. Wertsch

Dialogue, Difference, and the "Third Voice" in the Zone of Proximal Development
J. Allan Cheyne & Donato Tarulli

Vygotsky's Sociohistorical Psychology and Its Contemporary Applications
by Carl Ratner

Activity Theory – an introduction
Activity Theory originated in the USSR, developed by Russian psychologists Vygotsky, Rubinshtein, Leontjev and Lurija. The theory is a philosophical framework that allows the study of different forms of human practice. The practice can be viewed as developmental processes where both individual and social levels are interlinked...

Activity Theory

What is Activity Theory?

What is Activity Theory?
Resources. University of Colorado at Denver. School of Education

Activity Theory as an Alternate Approach to Instructional Systems Design

International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory -- ISCRAT

Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research
... is a research unit at the University of Helsinki in Finland. We conduct research in work, technology and organizations going through transformations.

The Fifth Dimension
The Fifth Dimension is a distributed literacy consortium comprised of a collective of after-school programs located in Boys and Girls Clubs, YM & YWCAs, recreation centers, and public schools across America, Mexico, Australia, and Russia. It is a mixed activity system of education and play designed to continue the projection of a second psychology (Cahan & White, 1992) and to instantiate cultural-historical activity theory (Cole, 1995a)...

Alexander Romanovich Luria *The Introduction* to The Making of Mind by Michael Cole

Alexei Leont'ev: profile

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