Lev Vygostsky Book

	Acknowledgements
	Introduction	1
1	Vygotsky and psychology: a debate within a debate	5
	The debate about psychology	9
	Psychologist and/or methodologist	11
	Interpretation-free science	12
2	The laboratory as methodology	19
	Ecological validity: methodological challenge to the dominant paradigm	21
3	Practice: Vygotsky's tool-and-result methodology and psychology	32
	Pragmatics	33
	Setting up the debate	36
	Practice	37
	Changing totalities in everyday life	42
	Revolutionary, practical-critical activity	46
	Thought and language	47
4	The zone of proximal development: a psychological unit or a revolutionary unity?	55
	The ZPD-in-use: the relationship between learning and development	55
	Using and misusing the ZPD	66
	Revolutionary unity	86
5	Playing in with the ZPD	94
	Vygotsky at play	96
	The writing game	103
6	Reform and revolution in the study of thinking and speech	111
	Egocentric thought and egocentric speech	114
	Thinking and speaking	126
	Unequal partners in dialogue: another liberal reformist interpretation of Vygotsky	138
7	Completing the historical Vygotsky	146
	Imitation	147
	Vygotsky's practice: his life-as-lived	154
	Completing Vygotsky	160
8	Logic and psychotherapy	176
	The logic of systems and the logic of completion	177
	Social therapy	191
	Not an ending	198
	Notes	200
	Bibliography	220
	Name index	232
	Subject index	236