Integral Periodization of General Psychological Development

Playworlds and Narratives as a Tool of Developmental Early Childhood Education

“…Motivational function in play was associated with a new type of human relations. A different idea about the character of leading activity in cultural development was presented in the elaboration of the general stage model by Slobodchikov and Tsukerman [36]. Vygotsky's general genetic law was taken as the basis of periodization: after socio-cultural formation of new collective abilities starts individual appropriation of psychological states and processes (internalization).…”

Towards Nonclassical Methodology of Psychology

“…A crisis separates two stages from each other and a stage has two different functional periods: a period of forming motivation of a new leading activity and a latent period adopting "technical mastery" of each leading activity. Slobodchikov and Zuckerman (2003) presented a different stage model, in which leading activity is replaced with the subjectness of a person and each stage is divided into periods of interactive and individual development.…”

“…What are the units of development at different stages? Slobodchikov and Zuckerman (2003) adopted in their integral model of general development Erikson's (1982) idea about developmental transitions. Erikson claimed that stages of human development do not form a chain, temporally following one after another, but rather "an epigenetic ensemble", in which all stages are present simultaneously.…”

“…Slobodchikov and Isa'ev continue Vygotsky's culturalhistorical heritage. Earlier we have presented the model of Integral Periodization of General Psychological Development (Slobodchikov & Zuckerman, 2003), which is an essential part of "psychological anthropology" as the new approach is called. The Integral Periodization Model is the first model of human development which directly is based on Vygotsky's "general genetic law of human development."…”

Editor's Introduction

“…This analysis began with V.I. Slobodchikov's general model of periodization of human development (Slobodchikov and Zuckerman, 2003). The basic question is what kind of child-adult interaction creates the zone of proximal development (ZPD).…”