Turning Vygotsky on His Head: Vygotsky's 'Scientifically Based Method' and the Socioculturalist's 'Social Other.'
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| Title: | Turning Vygotsky on His Head: Vygotsky's 'Scientifically Based Method' and the Socioculturalist's 'Social Other.' |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Rowlands, Stuart |
| Source: | Science and Education. Nov 2000 9(6):537-575. |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 39 |
| Publication Date: | 2000 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Descriptive |
| Descriptors: | Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Higher Education, Instruction, Science Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Theory Practice Relationship |
| ISSN: | 0926-7220 |
| Abstract: | Attempts to understand Vygotsky's perspective in relation to Marxist epistemology and critically examines the sociocultural interpretation of Vygotsky. Shows that the relativism of the sociocultural school not only takes Vygotsky's zone of proximal development out of its social and historical context, but downplays the zone of proximal development as a dynamic research methodology. (Author/SAH) |
| Entry Date: | 2001 |
| Accession Number: | EJ620467 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | Attempts to understand Vygotsky's perspective in relation to Marxist epistemology and critically examines the sociocultural interpretation of Vygotsky. Shows that the relativism of the sociocultural school not only takes Vygotsky's zone of proximal development out of its social and historical context, but downplays the zone of proximal development as a dynamic research methodology. (Author/SAH) |
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| ISSN: | 0926-7220 |
