Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Concept of Psychological Activity Piaget, Vygotsky, and the Cognitive Revolution The Mediated Learning Experience and Psychological Tools Cognitive Education Cognitive Skills in Immigrant and Ethnic Minority Students Literature as a Psychological Tool The Challenges of Prospective Education References Acknowledgments Index

Promotional Information

Kozulin has established himself as a significant interpreter of Vygotsky, and Psychological Tools makes a major contribution to our ability to think in psychological terms about what actually happens in the process of education. -- Sheldon White, Harvard University Clarifies for the contemporary reader just how Vygotsky's thought evolved, in clear, precise language that makes Vygotsky's work accessible to novices. Kozulin gives us a fresh perspective on Vygotsky's key concept of psychological tools by showing how it works in classrooms filled with children from radically different cultures. -- Jane E. Knox-Voina, Bowdoin College

About the Author

Alex Kozulin is Academic Coordinator of the International Department at the Feuerstein Institute (The International Institute for the Enhancement of Learning Potential), Jerusalem.

Reviews

Kozulin has established himself as a significant interpreter of Vygotsky, and Psychological Tools makes a major contribution to our ability to think in psychological terms about what actually happens in the process of education. -- Sheldon White, Harvard University
Clarifies for the contemporary reader just how Vygotsky's thought evolved, in clear, precise language that makes Vygotsky's work accessible to novices. Kozulin gives us a fresh perspective on Vygotsky's key concept of psychological tools by showing how it works in classrooms filled with children from radically different cultures. -- Jane E. Knox-Voina, Bowdoin College
This is a magnificent book. It is brief, devourable and rich in both its erudition and thought-provoking ideas. As soon as I had finished it for the first time, I immediately began again... This is a book which can be read at a number of different levels and where the author's love of and deep knowledge about his subject shines through every page. -- Bob Burden * British Journal of Educational Psychology *