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ERIC Number: EJ620467
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0926-7220
Turning Vygotsky on His Head: Vygotsky's "Scientifically Based Method" and the Socioculturalist's "Social Other."
Rowlands, Stuart
Science and Education, v9 n6 p537-75 Nov 2000
Attempts to understand Vygotsky's perspective in relation to Marxist epistemology and critically examines the sociocultural interpretation of Vygotsky. Shows that the relativism of the sociocultural school not only takes Vygotsky's zone of proximal development out of its social and historical context, but downplays the zone of proximal development as a dynamic research methodology. (Author/SAH)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Higher Education, Instruction, Science Education, Sociocultural Patterns, Theory Practice Relationship
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Vygotsky (Lev S)
Note: Special issue: Constructivism, Epistemology and the Learning of Science.