vygotsky's paradigm

Jones, Peter (P.E.Jones who-is-at shu.ac.uk)
Mon, 20 Oct 1997 17:51:00 +0100

20 october 1997
from peter jones, sheffield hallam university, UK
Hi folks.
Re ulric's question, it seems to me that one should be clear that Vygotsky
himself firmly saw his work within the marxist 'paradigm' (not a happy term
it seems to me) and that, indeed, his key ideas are a creative development
of (but still within) the marxist philosophical and methodological
foundations which he accepted, although there is controversy on this issue
(see particularly the critique of followers of S L Rubinstein who prefer to
put Vygotsky with Bakhtin).
Peter