Vygotsky in Perspective Ronald Miller Books
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Lev Vygotsky has acquired the status of one of the grand masters in psychology. Following the English translation and publication of his Collected Works there has been a new wave of interest in Vygotsky accompanied by a burgeoning of secondary literature. Ronald Miller argues that Vygotsky is increasingly being 'read' and understood through secondary sources and that scholars have claimed Vygotsky as the foundational figure for their own theories, eliminating his most distinctive contributions and distorting his theories. Miller peels away the accumulated layers of commentary to provide a clearer understanding of how Vygotsky built and developed his arguments. In an in-depth analysis of the last three chapters of Vygotsky's book Thinking and Speech, Miller provides a critical interpretation of the core theoretical concepts that constitute Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory, including the development of concepts, mediation, the zone of proximal development, conscious awareness, inner speech, word meaning and consciousness.
Vygotsky in Perspective Ronald Miller Books
The book is very clearly written and brings to the fore some interesting issues regarding the veracity of contemporary representation of Vygotsky's work. At times however Miller gives the impression that he has the real goods and others like Wertsch,Coles, Ratner have only the distorted version. Miller's view is in it's own way just as much of a take on Vygotsky as the other authors he criticizes. His claim that Vygotsky's understanding and critique of Piaget was of the early Piaget and not the late Piaget is a case in point. If anything, Vygotsky's criticisms are even more cogent and salient with the later Piaget as he gave even more emphasis to endogenous factors in development than earlier on. Still Miller is worth reading even if only for all the dust he throws up.My impression is that Miller is de Marxifying Vygotsky. If so then the reality check is that Vygotsky wasn't just a Marxist for reasons of expediency, but would never have been able to construct his work without the influence and direction of Marx and Engels. True he critically drew on a number of other European thinkers including Spinoza,Hegel, James and Dilthey, but this doesn't negate his Marxist credentials nor place him in the same stable as the later Piaget.
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Vygotsky in Perspective Ronald Miller Books Reviews
If you have ever felt as if there is a gap between your reading of Vygotsky and what the secondary literature says about Vygotsky, then you might find out why in Miller's critique of Cole and Wertsch.
The book is very clearly written and brings to the fore some interesting issues regarding the veracity of contemporary representation of Vygotsky's work. At times however Miller gives the impression that he has the real goods and others like Wertsch,Coles, Ratner have only the distorted version. Miller's view is in it's own way just as much of a take on Vygotsky as the other authors he criticizes. His claim that Vygotsky's understanding and critique of Piaget was of the early Piaget and not the late Piaget is a case in point. If anything, Vygotsky's criticisms are even more cogent and salient with the later Piaget as he gave even more emphasis to endogenous factors in development than earlier on. Still Miller is worth reading even if only for all the dust he throws up.
My impression is that Miller is de Marxifying Vygotsky. If so then the reality check is that Vygotsky wasn't just a Marxist for reasons of expediency, but would never have been able to construct his work without the influence and direction of Marx and Engels. True he critically drew on a number of other European thinkers including Spinoza,Hegel, James and Dilthey, but this doesn't negate his Marxist credentials nor place him in the same stable as the later Piaget.
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