The Essential Vygotsky
Seventy years after his death, the visionary work of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934) continues to have a profound impact on psychology, sociology, education, and other varied disciplines. The Essential Vygotsky selects the most significant writings fr
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Vygotsky
THE ESSENTIAL
VygotSky Edited by
Robert W. Rieber City University ofNew l&rk New 1'&rk. New 1'&rk
and
David K. Robinson Truman State University KirkstJiJJe. Missouri
In collaboration with
Jerome Bruner New 1'&rk University New York. New York
Joseph Glick
City University ofNew 1'&rk New York. New York
Michael Cole
University of Odifornia-San Dietl' La Jolla. Odifornia
Carl Ratner
Institute for Cultural Research and EtirKation TrinidtuJ. Odifornia
Anna Stetsenko City University ofNew York New 1'&rk. New York
Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vygotskii, 1. S. (Lev Semenovich), 1896-1934. [Collected works of L. S. Vygotsky. English Selections] The essential Vygotsky 1 edited by Robert W. Rieber, David K. Robinson ; in collaboration with Jerome Bruner ... [et al.]. p.cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Psychology. 1. Rieber, R. W. (Robert w.) II. Robinson, David Kent. III. Bruner, Jerome S. Oerome Seymour) IV.
Title. BF121.V94213 15O--dc22
2004 2004047336
ISBN 978-1-4757-1010-6 ISBN 978-0-387-30600-1 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-30600-1 © 2004 by Springer Science+ Business Media N ew York Originally published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers in 2004 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2004
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Dedicated to the memory ofAlexander Luria and with gratitude to the l1gotsky family, especially G. L. l1godskaya
Prologue: Reading Vygotsky MICHAEL COLE, Laboratory ofComparative Human Cognition,
University ofCalifornia, San Diego
Writing a prologue for a collection like this is truly astonishing to me for many reasons. It is now more than forty years since I first encountered the name of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, a Russian scholar born just before the start of the twentieth century. By virtue of my education in the middle of the twentieth century as an experimental psychologist who specialized in learning, I was reasonably well trained in that form of positivist behavioral sciences that took it as a simple truth that the errors of the originators of the discipline of psychology were a thing of the past. To my generation of experimental psychologists, the history of psychology was the uplifting story of that long trail of errors that had been overcome by recent scientific advances. Such history served primarily as a cautionary tale about not succumbing to the
