Lev Vygotsky

Description

A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft. Lev Vygotsky is indisputably a major thinker in education. Rene van der Veer's volume offers the most coherent account of Vygotsky's educational thought. This work is divided into: Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Vygotsky's work The Reception, Influence and Relevance of Vygotsky's Work Today.

Rene van der Veer is Casimir Professor of the History of Education at Leiden University, Netherlands. Richard Bailey is a writer and researcher in education and sport. A former teacher in both primary and secondary schools and a teacher trainer, he has been Professor at a number of leading Universities in the UK. He now lives and works in Germany, where he is Manager of Sport and Health at the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education.

"'...van der Veer's volume is especially important - it connects Russian and Western views of Vygotsky's creativity.' Elena L. Grigorenko, Yale University, USA and Moscow State University, Russia"