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Overview
A major international reference series providing comprehensive accounts of the work of seminal educational thinkers from a variety of periods, disciplines and traditions. It is the most ambitious and prestigious such project ever published - a definitive resource for at least a generation. The thinkers include: Aquinas, Aristotle, Bourdieu, Bruner, Dewey, Foucault, Freire, Holt, Kant, Locke, Montessori, Neill, Newman, Owen, Peters, Piaget, Plato, Rousseau, Steiner, Vygotsky, West and Wollstonecraft.
Lev Vygotsky is indisputably a major thinker in education. René van der Veer's volume offers the most coherent account of Vygotsky's educational thought. This work is divided into:
Intellectual biography Critical exposition of Vygotsky's work The Reception, Influence and Relevance of Vygotsky's Work Today.