L.S. Vygotsky's pedological works. pedology of the transitional age as a psychological and social problem / L.S. Vygotsky ; translated with notes by David Kellogg and Nikolai Veresov.
| Author/creator | Vygotskiĭ, L. S. author. |
| Other author | Kellogg, David, translator, author of notes. |
| Other author | Veresov, Nikolai, translator, author of notes. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Singapore : Springer, [2024] |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxii, 384 pages) : illustrations. |
| Supplemental Content | EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Pedology of the adolescent II |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Series | Perspectives in cultural-historical research ; volume 12 Perspectives in cultural-historical research ; v. 12. |
| Contents | 1. The development of interests in the transitional age -- 2. Development of thinking and concept formation in the adolescent -- 3. Development of higher psychological functions in the transitional age -- 4. Imagination and creativity in the adolescent -- 5. Choice of profession -- 6. Social behaviour in the adolescent -- 7. The working adolescent -- 8. The structure and dynamics of the adolescent personality. |
| Abstract | This book contains a new translation of the second half of the Pedology of the Adolescent by the renowned Soviet thinker, educator and teacher L.S. Vygotsky. It was a correspondence course written by Vygotsky for teachers across the Soviet Union, and it constitutes the longest work published in his lifetime. Four chapters have never been translated before and appear here for the very first time. With this volume, Vygotsky concludes the sustained argument he commenced in Vol. 3 Pedology of the Adolescent I: Pedology in the Transitional Age, establishing the borders of pedology, the nature of the transition between childhood and adulthood, and the concrete nature of the distinction between the lower psychological functions we largely have in common with animals and those that are specific to fully social humans. In this volume Vygotsky "puts flesh on the skeleton" of his working hypothesis concerning the interests and the development of concepts in the psychology of the adolescent. He then frames concepts as a special case of developing higher psychological functions, and demonstrates the roots of that development in the social environment. Many of the problems Vygotsky broaches in these new chapters--the choice of a profession, the initiation of the adolescent into working life--are still of immediate, not to say urgent, relevance today. The volume concludes with a remarkable vision of a society "where production is organized for the producers" that still seems far ahead of its time and still ahead of our own. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 26, 2024). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: 9819715369 9789819715367 |
| ISBN | 9789819715374 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9819715377 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.1007/978-981-97-1537-4 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |