Vygotsky Circle as a Personal Network of Scholars: Restoring Connections Between People and Ideas

Abstract

The name of Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) is well-known among contemporary psychologists and educators. The cult of Vygotsky, also known as "Vygotsky boom", is probably conducive to continuous reinterpretation and wide dissemination of his ideas, but hardly beneficial for their understanding as an integrative theory of human cultural and biosocial development. Two problems are particularly notable. These are, first, numerous gaps and age-old biases and misconceptions in the historiography of Soviet psychology, and, second, the tendency to overly focus on the figure of Vygotsky to the neglect of the scientific activities of a number of other protagonists of the history of cultural-historical psychology. This study addresses these two problems and reconstructs the history and group dynamics within the dense network of Vygotsky's collaborators and associates, and overviews their research, which is instrumental in understanding Vygotsky's integrative theory in its entirety as a complex of interdependent ideas, methods, and practices.

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“…Затем, всего два года спустя, в 1978 г. в издательстве Гарвардского университета вышла другая книга, которой -к большому удивлению издателей и вопреки самым оптимистичным прогнозам команды ее редакторов под неформальным руководством Майкла Коула (Michael Cole) -суждено было ознаменовать собой начало явления, называемого разными авторами то «бум» (Vygotsky boom) (Коул, 2012;Cole, 2004Cole, , 2012Garai, Kocski, 1995), то «революция» (Vygotskian revolution) (Harre, 2006), а то и «культ Вы готского» (the cult of Vygotsky) (Yasnitsky, 2010(Yasnitsky, , 2011.…”

A elaboração da psicologia sócio histórica cultural: As cartas vigotskianas

“…Zavershneva. O primeiro, superando a "história oficial" da psicologia soviética do início do século passado, que localiza nas figuras de Vigotski, Luria e Leontiev -a "tróica" -os fundadores da psicologia sócio histórica cultural, nos remete para uma outra dinâmica denominada por ele de "Círculos Vigotskianos" (Yasnitsky, 2009(Yasnitsky, , 2011. Yasnitsky focaliza seu estudo nos grupos de pesquisadores que mantiveram algum tipo de contato com Vigotski e que o influenciaram na construção de suas proposições teóricas.…”

“…E alguns destes, por sua vez, podem eventualmente ganhar ainda mais estrutura como potenciais disciplinas ou proto-instituições. (Adams citado por Yasnitsky, 2011:426) A partir das redes pessoais, Yasnitsky identificou quatro fases na inserção de Vigotski no campo da psicologia soviética no período de 1924 a 1934 (Yasnitsky, 2009(Yasnitsky, , 2011.…”

“…Sabemos que essa questão é bastante polêmica 6 no campo da história da psicologia sócio histórica cultural, mas documentos recentemente publicados nos apontam para tal situação (ver Yasnitsky, 2009Yasnitsky, , 2011Zavershneva, 2010a,b,c).…”

Pedology as a Complex Science Devoted to the Study of Children in Russia: The History of its Origin and Elimination

“…A lot of works were devoted to a famous Russian pedologist Lev Vigotsky and published by foreign and Russian authors (Cole & Wertsch, 1996;Daniels, 1996;Daniels, Wertsch, & Cole, 2007;Kozulin, 1990;Lee & Smagorinsky, 2000;Newman & Holzman, 1993;van der Veer & Valsiner, 1991;van der Veer & Valsiner, 1994;van der Veer & Yasnitsky, 2011;Veresov, 1999;Vygodskaya & Lifanova, 1999a;Vygodskaya & Lifanova, 1999b;Wertsch, 1985;Yasnitsky, 2010;Yasnitsky, 2011a;Yasnitsky, 2011b). No doubt, Vygotsky's theory is well known as a psychological approach to the child development but his pedological works remain underestimated.…”