Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Psychologist whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
1896, Orsha, Russian Empire (now Belarus) — 1934, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russian Empire · Soviet Union
Lev Vygotsky is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Psychologist whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
Vygotsky was a psychologist whose theory of the social and cultural origins of mind — including the zone of proximal development and his work Thought and Language — founded developmental psycholinguistics and cultural-historical psychology. He was born into a Jewish family in Orsha and was Jewish. His ideas became profoundly influential in education and cognitive science after his early death.
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Psychologist whose work on thought and language founded developmental psycholinguistics.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Linguistics
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