num_pages: 494
description: Innovative ideas in educational psychology, learning, and instruction, originally formulated by Russian psychologist and educator Lev Vygotsky, are currently enjoying unprecedented popularity in the U.S., Latin America, Europe, and Russia. An international team of scholarly contributors provides comprehensive coverage of all the main concepts of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory. They emphasize its importance for the understanding of child development, and propose specific classroom applications.
language: English
title: Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context
titlecomplete: Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
genres: Education, Psychology
ratings_count: 20
series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
publisher: Cambridge University Press