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One More Time on the Zone of Proximal Development

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ID12944477
AuthorsV K Zaretsky (0000-0002-8831-6127, Moscow State University of Psychology & Education, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume17
Issue2
Pages37-49
Publication date2021-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural-Historical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1816-5435 • E-ISSN: 2224-8935
PublisherMoscow State University of Psychology and Education (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.17759/chp.2021170204
OpenAlexW3180185869
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited18

The article presents an analysis of L.S. Vygotsky’s concept of a zone of proximal development (ZPD); considers various ZPD definitions; provides a critical review of the most popular definition of ZPD as adopted from L.S. Vygotsky’s 1935 work and used as basic by English-speaking authors. Taking into account the fact that L.S. Vygotsky’s general methodological intention was to establish psychology as a practice and that his developmental theory as well as the ZPD concept development remained incomplete due to the known life circumstances, we analyze L.S. Vygotsky’s writings that allow for another ZPD conceptualization, which differs from the one implied by the 1935 definition, so as to attempt at reconstructing the concept. In reviewing L.S. Vygotsky’s assumptions regarding the learning-development relationship; ZPD; its relevance for diagnostic assessment and teaching; feasibility of extrapolating the ZPD concept onto different personality aspects, the authors identify substantive aspects of the ZPD concept that the "canonical" definition lacks. The article describes a multidimensional model of ZPD, which has taken shape within the Reflection-Activity Approach to assisting students with overcoming learning difficulties and which integrates Vygotsky's key ZPD-related ideas. E.G. Yudin’s conceptualization of methodological functions of conceptual schemes is used to reconstruct the methodological status of the ZPD concept. The authors demonstrate that, since its inception, the ZPD concept has passed through the stages of an explanatory principle, a research subject, and a methodological tool for constructing new subjects of research and development

Concept learning · Conceptualization · Epistemology · Mathematics education · Zone of proximal development · Computer Science · Educational and Psychological Assessments · Educational Methods and Teacher Development · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Artificial Intelligence

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Unique citing works3
Citations per year1,5
Citation span2024 - 2026 (3)
Citation velocitycurrent
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