R Van Der Veer
Biographic Data
| ID | 47814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Van Der Veer |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Veer |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER VEER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6688-9610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 84 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Exploring Vygotsky’s Archives
In this paper it is argued that a full understanding of Vygotsky’s legacy should be based on the study of not just his published writings but also on his notebooks, manuscripts, and correspondence. The author provides several examples of hitherto unknown findings that illustrate his argument
Teorías subjetivas en libros latinoamericanos de crianza, acerca de la educación emocional
(analítico): En este artículo reportamos los hallazgos encontrados en un estudio acerca de las teorías subjetivas o personales presentes en una muestra constituida por nueve libros latinoamericanos con consejos para padres y madres, basados en la educación emocional de los hijos y de las hijas. Objetivo: describir las teorías subjetivas presentes en los libros latinoamerica-nos con consejos para padres y madres, específicamente acerca de la educa…
Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget: Partial Reconstruction of Their Cooperation
In this paper the genesis of the cooperation between Alexander Luria and Jean Piaget is reconstructed on the basis of recently found correspondence and historical data. It is shown that their initial meeting at the famous Ninth International Congress of Psychology in New Haven, 1929, formed the beginning of a cordial and productive relationship which, however, was abruptly interrupted in the late 1930's. At the background of much of their coopera…
La gobernanza social en la UE a través de una década de funcionamiento del Semestre Europeo
Vygotsky’s Legacy: Understanding and Beyond
The article sketches the history of the study of Vygotsky’s legacy in the Soviet Union and the West and then switches to a brief discussion of the origin of the book Understanding Vygotsky published 30 years ago. Several features and shortcomings of the book are discussed and it is shown that recent publications partly fill the gaps in our knowledge. This is illustrated by a succinct discussion of the contributions to the special issue which show…
The nature of love: Harlow, Bowlby and Bettelheim on affectionless mothers
Harry Harlow, famous for his experiments with rhesus monkeys and cloth and wire mothers, was visited by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst John Bowlby and by child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim in 1958. They made similar observations of Harlow’s monkeys, yet their interpretations were strikingly different. Bettelheim saw Harlow’s wire mother as a perfect example of the ‘refrigerator mother’, causing autism in her child, while Bowlby saw Harlow’s resu…
Research notes: John Bowlby’s critical evaluation of the work of René Spitz
In the history of psychology and theoretical discourse on the socioemotional development of children, the names Bowlby and Spitz are often mentioned in tandem. Both men were hugely interested in research on the consequences of maternal deprivation for young infants. However, though they would appear to have been thinking along the same lines and often referenced each other's work, it turns out they held very different views on the dynamic assessm…
A tale of four countries: How Bowlby used his trip through Europe to write the WHO report and spread his ideas
Attachment theory, developed by child psychiatrist John Bowlby, is considered a major theory in developmental psychology. Attachment theory can be seen as resulting from Bowlby's personal experiences, his psychoanalytic education, his subsequent study of ethology, and societal developments during the 1930s and 1940s. One of those developments was the outbreak of World War II and its effects on children's psychological wellbeing. In 1950, Bowlby w…
Lev Vygotsky
The Trip to London
Not by bread alone: Lev Vygotsky’s Jewish writings
On the basis of both published and unpublished manuscripts written from 1914 to 1917, this article gives an overview of Lev Vygotsky's early ideas. It turns out that Vygotsky was very much involved in issues of Jewish culture and politics. Rather surprisingly, the young Vygotsky rejected all contemporary ideas to save the Jewish people from discrimination and persecution by creating an autonomous state in Palestine or elsewhere. Instead, until we…
The final chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech: A reader's guide
The seventh and last chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech (1934) is generally considered as his final word in psychology. It is a long chapter with a complex argumentative structure in which Vygotsky gives his view on the relationship between thinking and speech. Vygotsky's biographers have stated that the chapter was dictated in the final months of Vygotsky's life when his health was rapidly deteriorating. Although the chapter is famous, it…
From secure dependency to attachment: Mary Ainsworth’s integration of Blatz’s security theory into Bowlby’s attachment theory
John Bowlby is generally regarded as the founder of attachment theory, with the help of Mary Ainsworth. Through her Uganda and Baltimore studies Ainsworth provided empirical evidence for attachment theory, and she contributed the notion of the secure base and exploratory behavior, the Strange Situation Procedure and its classification system, and the notion of maternal sensitivity. On closer scrutiny, many of these contributions appear to be heav…
Vygotsky, Lev Semenovic (1896–1934)
Vygotsky, the theater critic: 1922–3
This article offers a preliminary analysis of Vygotsky’s theatrical reviews from his Gomel period against the background of Russian theatrical history. For several years Vygotsky published theater reviews of performances by local and travelling companies in the local newspaper. His writings show him to have been a very knowledgeable and demanding theater critic who knew both the Russian-language and the Yiddish theater perfectly well. Some parall…
Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure: The Origin of an Instrument
The American-Canadian psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) developed the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to measure mother-child attachment and attachment theorists have used it ever since. When Ainsworth published the first results of the SSP in 1969, it seemed a completely novel and unique instrument. However, in this paper we will show that the SSP had many precursors and that the road to such an instrument was long and winding. Our analy…
From foundling homes to day care: A historical review of childcare in Chile
This article discusses significant changes in childcare policy and practice in Chile. We distinguish four specific periods of childcare history: child abandonment and the creation of foundling homes in the 19th century; efforts to reduce infant mortality and the creation of the health care system in the first half of the 20th century; an increasing focus on inequality and poverty and the consequences for child development in the second half of th…
Subjective theories in Latin Americans parenting books, about emotional education
En este artículo reportamos los hallazgos encontrados en un estudio acerca de las teorías subjetivas o personales presentes en una muestra constituida por nueve libros latinoamericanos con consejos para padres y madres, basados en la educación emocional de los hijos y de las hijas. Objetivo: describir las teorías subjetivas presentes en los libros latinoamericanos con consejos para padres y madres, específicamente acerca de la educación emocional…
An unexpected admirer of Ladygina-Kohts
Previously unknown correspondence between Nadya Nikolaevna Ladygina-Kohts, author of The Chimpanzee Child and the Human Child (1935), and Harry Harlow shows a reciprocal interest in, and admiration for, each other's work. In 1960 and 1961, they exchanged some 9 letters as well as numerous reprints and publications. The correspondence shows that Ladygina-Kohts and Harlow had been following each other's work for years and that Ladygina-Kohts's work…
In Search of the Unknown: Introduction to the Special Issue
The problem of aesthetic perception occupied Vygotsky throughout his life. Working in different research collectives or networks he worked out different answers but never reached a final solution. Inadequate and incomplete access to his writings unfortunately hinders us from understanding Vygotsky's ideas and his personal motives. Publication of his notebooks and unadulterated versions of his writings plus an analysis of his research networks wil…
Vygotsky in English: What Still Needs to Be Done
At present readers of English have still limited access to Vygotsky's writings. Existing translations are marred by mistakes and outright falsifications. Analyses of Vygotsky's work tend to downplay the collaborative and experimental nature of his research. Several suggestions are made to improve this situation. New translations are certainly needed and new analyses should pay attention to the contextual nature of Vygotsky's thinking and research…
To Moscow with Love: Partial Reconstruction of Vygotsky’s Trip to London
The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) left the Soviet Union only once to attend a conference on the education of the deaf in London. So far almost nothing was known about this trip, which took place in a period when Vygotsky was still completely unknown as a psychologist, both inside his own country and abroad. Making use of a newly discovered notebook, it proved possible to partially reconstruct Vygotsky's journey and stay in London.…
Contents, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1996
Vygotsky and Piaget: A Collective Monologue
This article presents a first and incomplete chronology of publications by Piaget and Vygotsky in which they criticize each other’s ideas. It is shown that a genuine critical dialogue between the two failed to develop because Piaget did not reply to Vygotsky’s lengthy criticisms at first. Several reasons for Piaget’s initial reticence are considered
Furthering the Internalization Debate: Gal’perin’s Contribution
In this article we examine the contribution to the analysis of the problem of internalization made by the Russian psychologist Gal’perin. The concept of internalization has been criticized recently for restricting researchers to an old paradigm of Cartesian dualism, with the suggestion made that clearer concepts such as mastery or appropriation be substituted. In our view, the concept of internalization has the advantage of pointing to a specific…
On the Social Nature of Human Cognition: An Analysis of the shared intellectual roots of George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky
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From secure dependency to attachment: Mary Ainsworth’s integration of Blatz’s security theory into Bowlby’s attachment theory
John Bowlby is generally regarded as the founder of attachment theory, with the help of Mary Ainsworth. Through her Uganda and Baltimore studies Ainsworth provided empirical evidence for attachment theory, and she contributed the notion of the secure base and exploratory behavior, the Strange Situation Procedure and its classification system, and the notion of maternal sensitivity. On closer scrutiny, many of these contributions appear to be heav…
Vygotsky in English: What Still Needs to Be Done
At present readers of English have still limited access to Vygotsky's writings. Existing translations are marred by mistakes and outright falsifications. Analyses of Vygotsky's work tend to downplay the collaborative and experimental nature of his research. Several suggestions are made to improve this situation. New translations are certainly needed and new analyses should pay attention to the contextual nature of Vygotsky's thinking and research…
When Strangers Meet: John Bowlby and Harry Harlow on Attachment Behavior
From 1957 through the mid-1970s, John Bowlby, one of the founders of attachment theory, was in close personal and scientific contact with Harry Harlow. In constructing his new theory on the nature of the bond between children and their caregivers, Bowlby profited highly from Harlow's experimental work with rhesus monkeys. Harlow in his turn was influenced and inspired by Bowlby's new thinking. On the basis of the correspondence between Harlow and…
The final chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech: A reader's guide
The seventh and last chapter of Vygotsky's Thinking and Speech (1934) is generally considered as his final word in psychology. It is a long chapter with a complex argumentative structure in which Vygotsky gives his view on the relationship between thinking and speech. Vygotsky's biographers have stated that the chapter was dictated in the final months of Vygotsky's life when his health was rapidly deteriorating. Although the chapter is famous, it…
Rigorous Experiments on Monkey Love: An Account of Harry F. Harlow’s Role in the History of Attachment Theory
On the basis of personal reminiscences an account is given of Harlow's role in the development of attachment theory and key notions of attachment theory are being discussed. Among other things, it is related how Harlow arrived at his famous research with rhesus monkeys and how this made Harlow a highly relevant figure for attachment theorist Bowlby
To Moscow with Love: Partial Reconstruction of Vygotsky’s Trip to London
The Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934) left the Soviet Union only once to attend a conference on the education of the deaf in London. So far almost nothing was known about this trip, which took place in a period when Vygotsky was still completely unknown as a psychologist, both inside his own country and abroad. Making use of a newly discovered notebook, it proved possible to partially reconstruct Vygotsky's journey and stay in London.…
Ainsworth's Strange Situation Procedure: The Origin of an Instrument
The American-Canadian psychologist Mary Ainsworth (1913-1999) developed the Strange Situation Procedure (SSP) to measure mother-child attachment and attachment theorists have used it ever since. When Ainsworth published the first results of the SSP in 1969, it seemed a completely novel and unique instrument. However, in this paper we will show that the SSP had many precursors and that the road to such an instrument was long and winding. Our analy…
The ontogeny of an idea: John Bowlby and contemporaries on mother–child separation
In this contribution, the authors situate the development of Bowlby's attachment theory against the background of the social, cultural, and scientific developments in interbellum Britain. It is shown that fairly early in his life Bowlby adopted one fundamental idea-that an infant primarily needs a warm and loving mother, and that separations from the mother are potentially damaging-and never substantially changed that basic notion in later years.…
The Concept of Culture in Vygotsky's Thinking
It is shown that Vygotsky's concept of culture was codetermined by two fundamental traditions in the human sciences. The first tradition was initiated by Humboldt and exerted a powerful influence on Vygotsky's thinking through the works of Potebnya and Shpet. Vygotsky's thinking about linguistic mediation was to a large extent determined by this tradition. The second tradition was that of Marxism and progressive thought and influenced Vygotsky's …
Not by bread alone: Lev Vygotsky’s Jewish writings
On the basis of both published and unpublished manuscripts written from 1914 to 1917, this article gives an overview of Lev Vygotsky's early ideas. It turns out that Vygotsky was very much involved in issues of Jewish culture and politics. Rather surprisingly, the young Vygotsky rejected all contemporary ideas to save the Jewish people from discrimination and persecution by creating an autonomous state in Palestine or elsewhere. Instead, until we…
Vygotsky, the theater critic: 1922–3
This article offers a preliminary analysis of Vygotsky’s theatrical reviews from his Gomel period against the background of Russian theatrical history. For several years Vygotsky published theater reviews of performances by local and travelling companies in the local newspaper. His writings show him to have been a very knowledgeable and demanding theater critic who knew both the Russian-language and the Yiddish theater perfectly well. Some parall…
From Concept Attainment to Knowledge Formation
In this article, Vygotsky's distinction between everyday and scientific concepts is outlined, and its hidden assumptions are stated. It is argued that Vygotsky's distinction was plausible and fruitful, but that it was problematic in its details and its application in actual schooling. Vygotsky's legacy can be criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds, and Vygotskians are urged to continue this process
On Some Historical Roots and Present-day Doubts: A Reply to Nicolopoulou and Weintraub (1996)
Nicolopoulou and Weintraub (1996) raised doubts about the extent of the relevance of the Humboldtian tradition for Vygotsky's concept of culture, and his semiotic approach in general. However, these doubts are unfounded—Vygotsky was in direct contact with the 19th-century German traditions of philosophical analyses of language, as well as with their Russian elaborations. Furthermore, Vygotsky borrowed theoretical notions from two distinct traditi…
Loneliness in Infancy: Harry Harlow, John Bowlby and Issues of Separation
In this contribution, the authors give an overview of the different studies on the effect of separation and deprivation that drew the attention of many in the 1940s and 1950s. Both Harlow and Bowlby were exposed to and influenced by these different studies on the so called 'hospitalization' effect. The work of Bakwin, Goldfarb, Spitz, and others is discussed and attention is drawn to films that were used to support new ideas on the effects of mat…
A tale of four countries: How Bowlby used his trip through Europe to write the WHO report and spread his ideas
Attachment theory, developed by child psychiatrist John Bowlby, is considered a major theory in developmental psychology. Attachment theory can be seen as resulting from Bowlby's personal experiences, his psychoanalytic education, his subsequent study of ethology, and societal developments during the 1930s and 1940s. One of those developments was the outbreak of World War II and its effects on children's psychological wellbeing. In 1950, Bowlby w…
Separation and divergence: The untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation
The work of Robertson and Bowlby is generally seen as complementary, Robertson being the practically oriented observer and Bowlby focusing on theoretical explanations for Robertson's observations. The authors add to this picture an "untold story" of the collaboration between Robertson and Bowlby: the dispute between the two men that arose in the 1960s about the corollaries of separation and the ensuing personal animosity. On the basis of unique a…
The Role of Nonautomatic Processes in Activity Regulation: From Lipps to Galperin
The authors present the historical analysis of one of the central questions in psychology: how and why the nonautomatic, psychological level of regulation (in contrast to automatic physiological processes) emerges both in evolution and in everyday context of activity. They discuss several approaches (by Lipps, Groos, Stern, James, Dewey, Claparède, Pavlov, and Leontiev) that culminated in the system of ideas developed by Galperin, one of the key …
Remembering Bartlett
Vygotsky's Developmental Psychology
Contemporary child psychologists make increasing use of ideas formulated by the Soviet psychologist Lev S. Vygotsky. Only part of his work, however, has been Translated into English. This makes our impression of Vygotsky's developmental psychology incomplete. The present paper seeks to provide additional relevant information, as yet unknown in Anglosaxon countries. The purpose is to complete our knowledge of Vygotskian ideas and to show that part…
Lev Vygotsky and Pierre Janet: On the origin of the concept of sociogenesis
On the Social Nature of Human Cognition: An Analysis of the shared intellectual roots of George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky
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Mikhail Basov: An Intellectual Biography
Mikhail Iakovlevich Basov was born on 3 November 1892 in a village near Pskov. After receiving his secondary-school diploma, he moved, in 1909, to St. Petersburg and entered Bekhterev's Psychoneurological Institute in order to study natural sciences. The formative years of Basov as a developmental psychologist were spent at that institute—first, as a student, later, as a research associate. It was in the mid-1920s that Basov moved to other instit…
Henri Wallon's Theory of Early Child Development: The Role of Emotions
On Some Historical Roots and Present-day Doubts: A Reply to Nicolopoulou and Weintraub (1996)
Nicolopoulou and Weintraub (1996) raised doubts about the extent of the relevance of the Humboldtian tradition for Vygotsky's concept of culture, and his semiotic approach in general. However, these doubts are unfounded—Vygotsky was in direct contact with the 19th-century German traditions of philosophical analyses of language, as well as with their Russian elaborations. Furthermore, Vygotsky borrowed theoretical notions from two distinct traditi…
The Concept of Culture in Vygotsky's Thinking
It is shown that Vygotsky's concept of culture was codetermined by two fundamental traditions in the human sciences. The first tradition was initiated by Humboldt and exerted a powerful influence on Vygotsky's thinking through the works of Potebnya and Shpet. Vygotsky's thinking about linguistic mediation was to a large extent determined by this tradition. The second tradition was that of Marxism and progressive thought and influenced Vygotsky's …
Bowlby before Bowlby: The sources of an intellectual departure in psychoanalysis and psychology
John Bowlby's first scientific papers express a viewpoint of the etiology of childhood disorders that gradually developed during his university years and the first years of his professional life. As becomes clear from, among other things, Bowlby's private correspondence, it was the period spent as a student at Cambridge, his work as a teacher at two progressive schools, and his work at a child guidance clinic that allowed him to articulate a view…
Educational psychology
From Concept Attainment to Knowledge Formation
In this article, Vygotsky's distinction between everyday and scientific concepts is outlined, and its hidden assumptions are stated. It is argued that Vygotsky's distinction was plausible and fruitful, but that it was problematic in its details and its application in actual schooling. Vygotsky's legacy can be criticized on both theoretical and empirical grounds, and Vygotskians are urged to continue this process
The Essence of Ratner and Other Problems
Piaget in the Plural: The Story of His Reception in Latin America
Some Reflections Concerning Gal’perin’s Theory
Commentaries| May 22 2000 Some Reflections Concerning Gal'perin's Theory Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health René van der Veer René van der Veer University of Leiden, The Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (2000) 43 (2): 99–102. https://doi.org/10.1159/000022663 Article history Published Online: May 22 2000 Content Tools Views Icon Views Artic…
Remembering Bartlett
On Comparing Vygotsky and Chomsky
Primitive Mentality Reconsidered
The Role of Nonautomatic Processes in Activity Regulation: From Lipps to Galperin
The authors present the historical analysis of one of the central questions in psychology: how and why the nonautomatic, psychological level of regulation (in contrast to automatic physiological processes) emerges both in evolution and in everyday context of activity. They discuss several approaches (by Lipps, Groos, Stern, James, Dewey, Claparède, Pavlov, and Leontiev) that culminated in the system of ideas developed by Galperin, one of the key …
School vs Child: In Search of Mitigating Circumstances
Langhout (2005) presents an account of a modern school, the degree of control over the students exerted by the teachers, and the ways the children resist this pressure. In my reaction I point out that the control mechanisms she describes form part of a long tradition in the history of education and that they may be inevitable. I also suggest that to make her stronger claims more convincing we would need rather more information
Radical-Local Teaching and Learning: A Cultural-Historical Approach by M. Hedegaard and S. Chaiklin
(2006). Radical-Local Teaching and Learning: a Cultural-Historical Approach by M. Hedegaard and S. Chaiklin. British Journal of Educational Studies: Vol. 54, No. 2, pp. 265-267
When Strangers Meet: John Bowlby and Harry Harlow on Attachment Behavior
From 1957 through the mid-1970s, John Bowlby, one of the founders of attachment theory, was in close personal and scientific contact with Harry Harlow. In constructing his new theory on the nature of the bond between children and their caregivers, Bowlby profited highly from Harlow's experimental work with rhesus monkeys. Harlow in his turn was influenced and inspired by Bowlby's new thinking. On the basis of the correspondence between Harlow and…
Rigorous Experiments on Monkey Love: An Account of Harry F. Harlow’s Role in the History of Attachment Theory
On the basis of personal reminiscences an account is given of Harlow's role in the development of attachment theory and key notions of attachment theory are being discussed. Among other things, it is related how Harlow arrived at his famous research with rhesus monkeys and how this made Harlow a highly relevant figure for attachment theorist Bowlby
Loneliness in Infancy: Harry Harlow, John Bowlby and Issues of Separation
In this contribution, the authors give an overview of the different studies on the effect of separation and deprivation that drew the attention of many in the 1940s and 1950s. Both Harlow and Bowlby were exposed to and influenced by these different studies on the so called 'hospitalization' effect. The work of Bakwin, Goldfarb, Spitz, and others is discussed and attention is drawn to films that were used to support new ideas on the effects of mat…
Vygotsky’s Theory of the Higher Psychological Processes: Some Criticisms
vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory is discussed, especially the distinction between lower and higher psychological processes. The distinction is criticized, based in part on discussions in Soviet psychology. In particular, it is shown that Vygotsky separated the lower and higher psychological processes too sharply, and that his conception of lower processes as ‘natural’ and ‘passive’ is false. The authors suggest that these shortcomings can be…
Separation and divergence: The untold story of James Robertson's and John Bowlby's theoretical dispute on mother-child separation
The work of Robertson and Bowlby is generally seen as complementary, Robertson being the practically oriented observer and Bowlby focusing on theoretical explanations for Robertson's observations. The authors add to this picture an "untold story" of the collaboration between Robertson and Bowlby: the dispute between the two men that arose in the 1960s about the corollaries of separation and the ensuing personal animosity. On the basis of unique a…
Contents, Vol. 39, No. 5, 1996
Psychology (43 works) · Philosophy (29 works) · Epistemology (25 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (22 works) · Psychoanalysis (20 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Innovative Education and Learning Practices (15 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (14 works) · Cognitive science (10 works)