Critical Reflection on the Reception of Vygotsky’s Theory in the International Academic Communities

This paper is an attempt to analyze various types of the reception of Vygotsky’s theory in the international academic communities. The paper develops a critical analysis of three widespread theoretical frameworks of interpretation of Vygotsky’s theory: cognitivism, culturalism, cultural-historical a...

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Published in:Cultural-Historical Psychology
Main Author: Dafermos M.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Moscow State University of Psychology and Education 2016
Subjects:
Vygotsky
cultural-historical theory
cognitivism
cultural relativism
CHAT
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North Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17759/chp.2016120303
https://doaj.org/article/a107508c219b4f3b9ffe9733ca6d3f17
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Summary:This paper is an attempt to analyze various types of the reception of Vygotsky’s theory in the international academic communities. The paper develops a critical analysis of three widespread theoretical frameworks of interpretation of Vygotsky’s theory: cognitivism, culturalism, cultural-historical activity theory. It is argues that fragmented readings of particular ideas of Vygotsky, without enough understanding of the theoretical programme in which these ideas have been included dominates in North-Atlantic research. The paper proposes the reconstruction of the theoretical programme of cultural-historical psychology in the social and scientific context of its formation.

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