Fifth November sixth thousand eight hundred ninety years in Belarus, in the city of Orsha was born Lev Semenovich Vygotsky.The future famous Soviet psychologist born in the family of employees.
Vygotsky Lev Semenovich: biography
The formation of Leo held by his father, S. Ashpits teacher, who is known for his method of embedded Socratic dialogue.In nineteen seventeenth year of Lev Semenovich he graduated from the Law Faculty of the University (Moscow), while the Faculty of History and Philosophy of University.Shinyavskogo.After that he worked as a teacher in the city of Gomel.In the Moscow University of Vygotsky Vygotsky starts in 1924.Later (1929) he organized a pilot defectology institute, which he headed.The EDI was a school-commune for children with behavioral problems.In 1925 he defended his thesis Lev Semenovich.Its theme - "Psychology of Art".In it, he proved that the art - it is a means of transformation of the individual.This work was published after the author's death.In the summer of that year, the only time in his life, he was an employee of People's Commissariat traveled abroad for a conference to educate deaf children to London.
In 1933 Vygotsky together with I. Danyushevskim undertook a study of children with speech disorders.Later he lectured at colleges and universities of Kharkov, Leningrad and Moscow.
psychology professor
At a time when Soviet psychology experienced a restructuring on the basis of Marxism (Lev Semenovich Vygotsky took active part in it), there is its development as a scientist.He critically analyzed the philosophical and psychological concepts.According to Vygotsky we must distinguish between two types of behavior - as a result of the cultural development of society and the natural (as a result of rapid biological evolution), which merged.
Activities Vygotsky in recent years
study of the structure of consciousness was the main activity of the scientist in his later years.In 1934, Lev Semenovich Vygotsky wrote the work "Thought and Speech", which became the basis of the Soviet psycholinguistics.Lev Semenovich often called the Mozart of psychology.He had no special education.And maybe that's why could take another look at the problem of psychology.
Influence of Vygotsky
June eleventh nineteen thirty-fourth year, at the age of thirty-seven years, Lev Semenovich, died of tuberculosis in Moscow.In the 30s in the Soviet Union began the revaluation of views on culture and science.As a result of the works of the great psychologists have been forgotten, and only in the 50s his work began to publish again.
Vygotsky Lev Semenovich and his cultural-historical theory became the basis of the largest of the Soviet school of psychology.His followers began to Galperin, LI Bozovic, Zinchenko and others. By the seventies, Vygotsky's theory of American scientists interested in psychology.His major works have been translated and became the basis of the US educational psychology.
