Piaget & Vygotsky

Books

Must-read books - original sources, commentaries and collections

Rogoff, B. (1990) Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Smith, L. , Dockrell, J., & Tomlinson, P. (eds) (1997). Piaget, Vygotsky, and Beyond. Future Issues for Developmental Psychology and Education. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415147433.

Tryphon, A., & Voneche, J. (eds) (1996). Piaget-Vygotsky: The Social Genesis of Thought. Hove: Psychology Press. ISBN 0863774148.

Papers

Key papers & discussions.

Cole, M. and Wertsch, J. (1996). Beyond the individual-social antinomy in discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky. Human Development, 39 (5) p. 250-256.

Glassman, M. (1994). All things being equal: The two roads of Piaget and Vygotsky. Developmental Review, 14(2), 186-214.

Matusov, E. and Hayes, R. (2000). Sociocultural critique of Piaget and Vygotsky. New Ideas in Psychology, 18, p. 215-239.

Tudge, J. R. H., & Winterhoff, P. A. (1993). Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bandura: Perspectives on the relations between the social world and cognitive development. Human Development, 36, 61-81.

Wertsch, J. V., & Penuel, W. R. (1999). The individual-society antinomy revisited: Productive tensions in theories of human development, communication, and education, Lev Vygotsky: Critical assessments: Vygotsky's theory, Vol. I. (pp. 339-359). Florence, KY, US: Taylor & Francis/Routledge.

Journals

Journals that regularly carry valuable papers on this topic

Special issues

Human Development, 39, 1996 (pp. 100-300).

New Ideas in Psychology, 18, 2000 (pp. 1-300).

Websites

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