V V Davydov

Biographic Data

ID5742032
NAMEV V Davydov
GIVEN NAMESV V
FAMILY NAMEDavydov
SIGNATUREDAVYDOV V V
AFFILIATIONSa Scientific Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology, USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, Moscow
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
H-INDEX0

  • The Functions of Reflection in Teaching Managers through Game Activity

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1991

    Coping with the difficult, complex problems of restructuring the nation's economy and managing the activity of work collectives effectively requires of today's manager the ability to think in a new way that rejects established stereotypes of thought and action. Hence, devising a system for training and retraining organizational management personnel that will develop their ability to think theoretically and their capacity to engage in a creative q…

  • Steering a Course between Vygotsky and Piaget

    Jere Confrey, V V Davydov et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher1991References: 1

  • Leont'ev's Theory of the Relationship between Activity and Mental Reflection

    V V Davydov, В В ДавыдовARTICLESoviet Psychology1985

    Aleksei Nikolaevich Leont'ev made a major contribution to the genesis and development of Soviet psychology, based on dialectical and historical materialism. The principal concepts of our psychology are the concepts of "activity" and "mental reflection." Both Leont'ev himself and representatives of his school participated in analysis of the content of these concepts, particularly their interrelationship. The results of their many years of investig…

  • The Problem of Activity in the Works of A. N. Leont'ev

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1983

    The category of activity is universally accepted in Soviet psychology. Further development of the activity approach requires our awareness of the path traversed, an analysis of the viewpoints that have emerged concerning the function of the category of activity in the system of psychological science, and a delimitation of problems for the research program of Soviet psychologists

  • A Concept of Educational Activity for Schoolchildren

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1982

    About two years ago, on a cool Southern California day, Vasili Davydov addressed a group of social scientists at the University of California, San Diego. He began his talk with a paradox. He had come, he said, to tell us about educational activity. He promised to exhibit principles that promote educational activity, and applied programs deriving from those principles. Then he laughed. "But you'll never see educational activity in the school," he …

  • The Category of Activity and Mental Reflection in the Theory Of A. N. Leont'ev

    V V Davydov, В В ДавыдовARTICLESoviet Psychology1981

    After the death of Aleksei Nikolaevich Leont'ev, we experienced a keen sense of the import of the frontier that our psychology and the scientific school associated with the names of L. S. Vygotsky, A. R. Luria, and A. N. Leont'ev had reached. The need arose to present their theoretical heritage, on the basis of which the achievements of this school can, and must, be further developed. In recent years it has been mainly in the works of A. N. Leont…

  • Psychological Conditions of the Origin of Ideal Acts

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1981

    A major tenet of Vygotskian Soviet psychology is that higher mental functions represent culturally, historically accumulated knowledge that is transmitted to the child in the course of his/her socialization. This idea of the gradual internalization of initially external (to the individual) modes of thinking is, of course, not unique to Soviet psychology

  • The Principle of Development in Psychology

    V V Davydov, В В Давыдов et al.ARTICLESoviet Psychology1981

    Soviet psychology has developed on the basis of Marxist-Leninist philosophy, in particular, on the theory of the role of practical activity with objects in the intellectual development of the individual and on the theory of reflection. On these foundations, the general principles for the study of animal mind and of human consciousness have been developed in psychology that together constitute the activity approach. Psychology has accumulated a va…

  • Major Problems in Developmental and Educational Psychology at the Present Stage of Development of Education

    V V Davydov, В В ДавыдовARTICLESoviet Psychology1977

    In our country we have created a broad network of preschool institutions, the transition to universal mandatory secondary education is being brought to completion, and the role of non-school institutions in the upbringing of children is being considerably broadened. From all these developments is emerging a unified system of social education and upbringing of coming generations, and interaction of this system with the family is creating favorable…

  • The Problem of Generalization in the Works of L. S. Vygotsky

    V V Davydov, В В ДавыдовARTICLESoviet Psychology1967

    An aspect of Vygotsky's psychological theory which is still meaningful as a genuine scientific problem today is the treatment he gave to the structure, function, and formation of generalization as a special means of reflecting reality in human consciousness. Many of the central propositions of the theory — concerning such questions as the role of symbols in the establishment of higher mental functions, the hierarchical structure of consciousness,…