[08107] Tools of the Mind

■ This text is designed for advanced Curriculum, Methods, and Issues courses in Early Childhood Education and Child and Family Studies departments.

As the only text of its kind, this book provides in-depth information about Vygotsky's theories, neo-Vygotskians' findings, and concrete explanations and strategies that instruct teachers how to influence student learning and development. Key changes to this edition include a new chapter on dynamic assessment, separate and expanded chapters on developmental accomplishments of infants and toddlers, preschool/kindergarten, and primary grades and on supporting those accomplishments, and elaborations of Vygotsky's ideas from neo-Vygotskians from Russia.


SECTION I The Vygotskian Framework: The Cultural-Historical Theory of Development

Chapter 1 Introduction to the Vygotskian Approach
Chapter 2 Acquiring Mental Tools and Higher Mental Functions
Chapter 3 The Vygotskian Framework and Other Theories of Development and Learning


SECTION II Strategies for Development and Learning

Chapter 4 The Zone of Proximal Development
Chapter 5 Tactics: Using Mediators
Chapter 6 Tactics: Using Language
Chapter 7 Tactics: Using Shared Activities


SECTION III Applying the Vygotskian Approach to Development and Learning in Early Childhood

Chapter 8 Developmental Accomplishments and Leading Activity: Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 9 Supporting the Developmental Accomplishments of Infants and Toddlers
Chapter 10 Developmental Accomplishments and the Leading Activity: Preschool and Kindergarten
Chapter 11 Supporting the Developmental Accomplishments in Preschool and Kindergarten
Chapter 12 Developmental Accomplishments and the Leading Activity: Primary Grades
Chapter 13 Supporting the Developmental Accomplishments in the Primary Grades
Chapter 14 Dynamic Assessment: Application of the Zone of Proximal Development


Epilogue
Glossary
References
Author Index
Subject Index