Lev Vygotsky

by Rene Van Der Veer, Richard Bailey (Series Editor)

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 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. René van der Veer's volume offers the most coherent account of Vygotsky's educational thought. This work is divided
Intellectual biography
Critical exposition of Vygotsky's work
The Reception, Influence and Relevance of Vygotsky's Work Today.

182 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2007