The Neo-Vygotskian Approach to Child Development

For the first time, the innovative approach to child development by Vygotsky's Russian colleagues and students is introduced to English-speaking readers. The book discusses the elaboration by the neo-Vygotskian of Vygotsky's theoretical assumptions and their analysis on this basis of child development from birth to adolescence. The discussion is supported by a review of the neo-Vygotskians' empirical findings, much of which has never been available before to English-speaking readers, as well as by a review of recent empirical findings of Western researchers.

Yuriy V. Karpov is Professor and Associate Dean at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology of Touro College. He did his undergraduate and graduate work at the School of Psychology of Moscow State University, the center of Vygotsky-based studies in the former Soviet Union. His studies on the implementation of Vygotsky's ideas in education, psychological assessment, and the analysis of child development have been published as books, chapters, and journal articles in Russian, English, and Spanish.