On Sun, 17 Aug 1997, Mike Cole wrote:
> Hi Stephanie--
>
> Dorothy McCarthy wrote a book called something like "The language development
> of the Child. U. of Minn Press. 1930 ( I believe) and has a chapter in an
> earlier edition of the Carmichael *Handbook of Child Development* (1954) which
> might reference something she wrote in 1936.
>
> But where did the myth of a first reference to Vygotsky in the US come from????
>
> And after is death?
>
> Vygotsky's article on "the cultural development of the child" appeared in the
> Journal of Genetic Psychology in 1929. He and Luria gave a talk (Luria
> actually gave it) at the International Congress of Psych in New Haven (is
> that in the US? :-) ) in 1929. There are several references to LSV in
> Luria's *Nature of Human Conflicts* published in English in 1932. That book
> is well worth looking at for lots of reasons, not least of which is that it
> contains the earliest more or less comprehensive statement of cultural
> historical psychology in English.
>
> There may be earlier materials. Van der veer and Valsiner's book is the best
> source for historical materials I know of.
>
> rattle rattle from so cal.
> mike
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