Cognitive psychology and reading in the U.S.S.R. /

The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English. The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer ma...

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Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Downing, John A., 1922-1987
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:Translation from the Russian.
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : New York, N.Y., USA : North Holland ; Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1988.
Series:Advances in psychology (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 49.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:The ideas of Soviet specialists on the psychology and teaching of reading are here made available in English. The volume gives an overview of psychology and education in the U.S.S.R., and presents translations of the work of major Soviet authors, such as Elkonin and Luria. The contributions offer many valuable proposals for teaching literacy which are quite unique outside of the Soviet Union. A concluding chapter provides a commentary, tracing the links between these specialist contributions and the general cognitive theories of Vygotsky. The result of ten years of research, this book was comple.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 471 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-462) and indexes.
ISBN:9780080867038
0080867030