The widespread appreciation of Vygotsky's work has unfortunately carried with it an oversight of his intellectual interdependency with the thinking of his contemporary psychologists and psychiatrists. This article provides an analysis of the immediate intellectual roots of Vygotsky's concept of social ...
In this philosophical-theoretical study of Lev Tolstoy’s pedagogical legacy of his Yasnaya Polyana school in the Russian Empire (1859–1862), I raised three major questions: (1) was Lev Tolstoy a democratic educator, and if so, why can one claim that, (2) if so, what kind of a democ...
The present article analyzes and contextualizes the significance of this concept in their discussions since they met in Berlin in 1925. It can be shown that a difference between Lewin's and Vygotsky's approach becomes salient in the ways they refer to Gestalt theory as a holistic approach. ...