A review by annettefunnycello
Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes by Lev S. Vygotsky

3.0

fascinating... i imagine this would be of interest for windsor house school types. Vygotsky describes an entirely different way of approaching learning -- to learn mathematics, students are first taught to think like a mathematician: e.g. numbers are not for counting; the basic "unit" is a measure. This makes binomial equations easy (even for me!) e.g. history is not taught as isolated facts; movements are presented as contextually rich events. etc. Sometimes the stuff I have to read is actually = to what I *want* to read. YAY!