Lev Vygotsky was born November 17, 1896, in Orsha, a city in the western Russian Empire. In 1917, he earned a law degree at Moscow State University, ...

Lev Vygotsky has been an iconic figure for several generations of psychologists in Russia and overseas. His concepts and theories, developed nearly 100 years ago, have transcended geography and ...

This idea was pioneered by Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist who studied children in the 1920s and noted that when they learned to talk to other humans, they also learned how to talk to ...

Lev Vygotsky (a documentary film about his life and current implementations of his ideas) Mind, Culture and Activity on Vimeo (lectures and interviews with Vygotskian scholars and practitioners) ...

The idea was introduced by psychologist Lev Vygotsky in the 1930’s to describe the space between what a learner can do independently, and what he or she can do with support. “It’s the Goldilocks of ...

The work of Lev Vygotsky is increasingly cited as we reconsider the theory and practice of constructivist education. This program introduces the life, vocabulary and concepts of Lev Vygotsky.

Lev Vygotsky was a Russian Jew, born in 1896 – the same year as Jean Piaget. Unlike Piaget, who lived into his eighties, Vygotsky died at the tragically young age of 37 from tuberculosis, which he had ...