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12 - Luria and Vygotsky

Challenges to current developmental research

from Part IV - Language and culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2014

By
Eugene Subbotsky
Edited by
Anton Yasnitsky ,
René van der Veer  and
Michel Ferrari
Anton Yasnitsky
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
René van der Veer
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Michel Ferrari
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Summary

Lev Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory emphasizes the role of historical and social contexts in psychological development. Vygotsky's interpretation of the development of pointing has been rediscovered in the current studies of social referencing in infants. The relationship between higher and lower mental functions in Vygotsky's theory was not strictly determined. Vygotsky's concept of lower mental functions (LMFs) shows the limitations of the infants' precocious abilities: the lack of conscious awareness, language mediation, executive ability, and systemic coordination. At the same time, the discoveries of infants' precocious abilities challenge Vygotsky's theory of LMFs and his general understanding of what cognitive development is. The purpose for future research is to evaluate the original Vygotsky-Luria model of Executive function (EF) as social skill of "tool mediated" self-regulation derived from interactive activities, and to examine it in relation to the contemporary accounts of executive functioning.

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psychological functionsmacro-analysismicro-analysisdevelopmental educationcultural toolscultural-historical theorychildren's independence
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The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology , pp. 295 - 312
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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