Does No One Read Vygotsky’s Words? Commentary on Glassman

M. E. Gredler; Carol Shields

DOI:10.3102/0013189X033002021

Corpus ID: 145203451

Does No One Read Vygotsky’s Words? Commentary on Glassman

@article{Gredler2004DoesNO,
  title={Does No One Read Vygotsky’s Words? Commentary on Glassman},
  author={M. E. Gredler and Carol Shields},
  journal={Educational Researcher},
  year={2004},
  volume={33},
  pages={21 - 25}
}

M. E. Gredler, Carol Shields

Published 2004

Psychology, Sociology

Educational Researcher

In the May 2001 issue of Educational Researcher, Michael Glassman proposed several commonalities in the thinking of John Dewey and Lev Vygotsky. However, in addition to general problems in the article (misstatements about scholars’ writings and a reliance on unsupported inferences), the discussion misconstrues major concepts and topics addressed by Vygotsky’s theory of cognitive development—psychological tools, the role of the cross-cultural study, the zone of proximal development, and the… CONTINUE READING

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