Vygotsky Anthology

Myra Barrs was the author of many books and other publications on language and learning in education. She was Honorary Senior Research Associate at the UCL Institute of Education, UK, and former director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, UK. Her book Vygotsky the Teacher: A Companion to his Psychology for Teachers and Other Practitioners was published by Routledge in 2022. She died in 2023.John Richmond has been an English teacher, an adviser of teachers and an educational broadcaster. He has published books and articles on English teaching and language and learning.

The most remarkable thing about this collection, as proper in any serious anthology, is its careful selection of articles, chapters and passages, sometimes even lines, from a vast range of Vygotsky's works, from the earliest to the latest, thereby giving us a fundamental idea about most of Vygotsky’s important ideas and innovations.- Suresh Chauhan, Cosmonaut Magazine

• 1. Vygotsky’s roots in psychology: extracts from Educational psychology2. Vygotsky’s passion for literature and drama: extracts from the psychology of art3. Vygotsky the defectologist4. On the crisis in psychology5. Discovering the power of the sign: extracts from Tool and symbol in child development6. In pursuit of a unified psychological structure: extracts from The history of the development of higher mental functions7. Vygotsky the pedologist8. Play, imagination and creativity9. The zone of proximal/proximate development10. Word meaning develops: extracts from Thinking and speech, Chapters 1, 2, 4 and 611. The final ‘why’: extracts from Thinking and speech, Chapter 7, ‘Thought and word’