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This book provides both a lost last word and a firm first foundation: seven lectures, given in the last months in the life of the Soviet thinker, teacher, and writer L.S. Vygotsky, offer us the most comprehensive and developed form of his thoughts on the child, expressed in the most fundamental and even popular form that Vygotsky himself used with his beginner-level students. As the title of Vygotsky’s course indicates, these are foundations upon which cultural-historical researchers can rebuild the lost science of “pedology”, a holistic approach to child development based on the dynamic unity of physical and mental development. Volume One includes translations of seven of Vygotsky’s lectures that reflect his approach to pedology; the method of pedology and the “methodics” of the unit of analysis; the role of heredity and social environment in child development; and general laws of development in childhood that will help parents and teachers understand the way the child’s endocrine system, nervous system, and mind change as the child enters a culture and learns to make history.
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Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research 7
L. S. Vygotsky
L. S. Vygotsky’s Pedological Works Volume 1. Foundations of Pedology Translated with notes and lecture outlines by David Kellogg and Nikolai Veresov
Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research Volume 7
Series Editors Marilyn Fleer, Peninsula Campus, Monash University, Frankston, Australia Elena Kravtsova, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia Nikolai Veresov, Faculty of Education, Monash University, Frankston, Australia Founding Editor Fernando González Rey, Department of Psychology, University Centre of Brasília, Brasília - DF, Brazil
There is growing interest in the work of LS Vygotsky internationally, but also in finding new ways and perspectives for advancing cultural-historical theory for solving contemporary problems. Although Vygotsky has become one of the most influential scholars in education and psychology today, there is still a need for serious studies of his work because so much remains unexamined. The books in this series draw on the collected works of Vygotsky as a primary source of authority. They go beyond secondary sources and discuss Vygotsky’s original ideas in the context of a system of concepts or through the elaboration and theorisation of research findings so that contemporary problems can be addressed in new ways. This series collectively brings together under one umbrella a more equal representation of works from scholars across both the Northern and Southern continents. In the context of a large volume of contributions to cultural-historical theorisation and the empirical work from North America, there is an urgent need for making visible the works of scholars from countries who reside in countries other than North America.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13559
L. S. Vygotsky’s Pedological Works Volume 1. Foundations of Pedology Translated with notes and lecture outlines by David Kellogg and Nikolai Veresov
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Translated by David Kellogg Sangmyung University Seoul, Korea (Republic of)
Nikolai Veresov Faculty of Education Monash University Frankston, VIC, Australia
ISSN 2520-1530 ISSN 2520-1549 (electronic) Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research ISBN 978-981-15-0527-0 ISBN 978-981-15-0528-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0528-7 © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or informatio