Table of Contents:
  • Sociocultural theory and education: students, teachers, and knowledge / Alex Kozulin, Boris Gindis, Vladimir S. Ageyev, and Suzanne M. Miller
  • I: Concepts and paradigms
  • 1. Psychological tools and mediated learning / Alex Kozulin
  • 2. The zone of proximal development in Vygotsky's analysis of learning and instruction / Seth Chaiklin
  • 3. Vygotsky's doctrine of scientific concepts: its role for contemporary education / Yuriy V. Karpov
  • 4. Some cognitive tools of literacy / Kieran Egan and Natalia Gajdamaschko
  • 5. Dynamic assessment of the evolving cognitive functions in children / Carol S. Lidz and Boris Gindis
  • II: Development and learning
  • 6. Periods in child development: Vygotsky's perspective / Holbrook Mahn
  • 7. Development through the lifespan: a Neo-Vygotskian approach / Yuriy V. Karpov
  • 8. Learning and development of preschool children from the Vygotskian perspective / Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong
  • 9. The learning activity in the first years of schooling: the developmental path toward reflection / Galina Zuckerman
  • 10. Remediation through education: sociocultural theory and children with special needs / Boris Gindis
  • III: Sociocultural theory application in the classroom
  • 11. Cultural-historical theory and mathematics education / Jean Schmittau
  • 12. Sociocultural theory and the practice of teaching historical concepts / Jacques Haenen, Hubert Schrijnemakers, and Job Stufkens
  • 13. Formation of learning activity and theoretical thinking in science teaching / Hartmut Giest and Joachim Lompscher
  • 14. How literature discussion shapes thinking: ZPDs for teaching/learning habits of the heart and mind / Suzanne M. Miller
  • 15. Beyond cognition: a Vygotskian perspective on emotionality and teachers' professional lives / Anne DiPardo and Christine Potter
  • IV: Diverse learners and contexts of education
  • 16. Intrapersonal communication and internalization in the second language classroom / James P. Lantolf
  • 17. Mediation in cognitive socialization: the influence of socioeconomic status / Pedro R. Portes and Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
  • 18. Cultural modeling: CHAT as a lens for understanding instructional discourse based on African American English discourse patterns / Carol D. Lee
  • 19. The relations of learning and student social class: toward re-"socializing" sociocultural learning theory / Carolyn P. Panofsky
  • 20. Vygotsky in the mirror of cultural interpretations / Vladimir S. Ageyev.