Coffee With Vygotsky: Half An Hour With A Scholar Of Developmental Psychology: COFFEE WITH...

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Who Is Vygotsky?
Have you always wanted to know the ideas of the great thinkers of Humanity and never found the time to make it happen? Did it discourage you to think that it would take you years to know the fundamentals about the greatest authors? So this book is for you. Treasures for life, in less than the duration of a movie, the essentials of the most important ideologues in history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: Dec 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201669768

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Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Coffee With Vygotsky: Half An Hour With A Scholar Of Developmental Psychology

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COFFEE WITH VYGOTSKY: HALF AN HOUR WITH A SCHOLAR OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

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COFFEE WITH LEV VYGOTSKY | HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH A SCHOLAR OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY | WHO IS VYGOTSKY?

Vigotsky, Lev | THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES | CHAPTER 4 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS

CHAPTER 5 METHOD PROBLEMS

CHAPTER 6 INTERACTION BETWEEN LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT

FOREWORD TO THE RUSSIAN EDITION OF THE BOOK BY W. KÖHLER INVESTIGATIONS ON THE INTELLIGENCE OF ANTHROPOMORPHOUS MONKEYS | 1- | VIGOTSKY: STUDIES ON ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE

ABOUT THE ARTICLE BY K. KOFFKA THE INTROSPECTION AND THE METHOD OF PSYCHOLOGY. BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION

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COFFEE WITH LEV VYGOTSKY

HALF AN HOUR ALONE WITH A SCHOLAR OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

WHO IS VYGOTSKY?

Vigotsky, Lev Semionovich (1896-1934): Russian psychologist, founder of Socio-historical Psychology. Interested in understanding the processes of thought and language, V linked it with thought directly as the only instrument through which man organizes perception and action on the things that surround him. Language forms and transforms the concepts that make up consciousness. His central thesis affirms that higher psychological processes emerge from culturally mediated practical activity, developed historically, so that mental activity is the result of cultural learning - there is no prior consciousness. We can establish the following postulates as bases of his thinking: a) to understand higher psychological processes it is necessary to understand instruments and signs as mediating tools (mediated action), b) higher psychological functions originate in society, c) use the historical conception of development and, d) reliance on genetic analysis. V took the philosophical bases of Marxism (for which he was persecuted by Stalinism) and set out to study psychological phenomena as processes in constant movement and change. From this point of view, V maintains that the social and material conditions of life determine the consciousness of men. Or put another way: man is internalized culture. He was critical of the psychological currents of his time, among them the Genetic Psychology of J. Piaget and the Reflexological Psychology of I. Pavlov. Among his main works we find: Consciousness as a problem in the Psychology of behavior (1925), The psychic development of the child (1928), The development of higher psychological processes (1930), Lessons in Psychology (1932) and Thought and language (1934).

Vigotsky, Lev

THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES

CHAPTER 4 INTERNATIONALIZATION OF HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS

Vygotsky is interested in understanding HOW SIGN CREATION PROCESSES ARE PRODUCED. At the beginning of his text, he compares the signs with a phone call since it connects two points through a line in space.

THE CREATION OF SIGNS IS AN AUXILIARY METHOD TO SOLVE A SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM (which may be to explain what we think, remember something, etc).

Vygotsky takes note of an ANALOGY that is quite widespread in general theoretical language BETWEEN TOOL AND SIGN. He quotes John Dewey who defines language as the tool of tools, but clarifies that the analogy he proposes is quite different. Vygotsky thinks that such an immediate analogy MAY LOSE SIGHT OF THE SPECIFIC PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES.

To avoid this and, at the same time, RECOVER THE EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF THIS ANALOGY, Vygotsky proposes to analyze it in three steps.

In the first, Vygotsky FOUNDATIONS THE SIGN-TOOL ANALOGY IN THE MEDIATOR FUNCTION WITH THE REALITY THAT BOTH POSSESS.

In the second moment, Vygotsky DIFFERENCES THE TOOL AS AN EXTERNAL ORIENTED INSTRUMENT FROM THE SIGN THAT IS AN INTERIOR ORIENTED INSTRUMENT.

The third moment Vygotsky raises the REAL LINK between the two from the fact that NATURE (MASTER OF THE TOOL), WHEN IT IS MODIFIED, INTRODUCES CHANGES IN THE INTERIOR NATURE OF MAN.

This approach is important to understand the development of the HIGHER PSYCHOLOGICAL PROCESSES AND THEIR EVOLUTION. Vygotsky takes the POINT operation carried out by the boy. At first he wants to reach an object out of reach of him and raises his hands without result. This is modified when the mother or any close relative appears and the infantile gesture produces a reaction, not in the object but in another person. From here, the conditions are given so that the child can go from the expense of grasping an object to the more symbolic of pointing it out.

The INTERNATIONALIZATION PROCESS goes through these stages:

 An initially external operation is rebuilt and begins to become internal

 A process between several people can become intrapersonal

 This process is the result of a long series of spiral evolutionary stages

CHAPTER 5 METHOD PROBLEMS

The methods reflect the way and the form to solve the fundamental psychological problems; Vigotsky says in this writing that his criticism will focus on a review of research methods.

And he says all psychological experiments rest (...) on what we call stimulus-response scheme and says that the authors who support these methods are Watson and Bejterev, as representatives of empiricism, and Wundt and