ELT History | Biographical details

Vygotsky, Lev. Semenovich.

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original spelling of his surname was Vygodsky; he changed the d to a t as he believed his family orginated from a village called Vygotovo; 2nd of 8 children of highly educated Jewish parents from Gomel;	van der Veer, Rene & Valsiner, Jaan, 1991
hobbies as a boy included stamp-collecting, chess and writing to his Icelandic pen friend in Esperanto, a language he was introduced to by his elder cousin David Vygodsky;	van der Veer, Rene & Valsiner, Jaan, 1991

Start	end	description
1896 November		Birth of Vygotsky
1909 November		Vygotsky's bar mitzvah
1913		Vygotsky graduates from high school
1917		Vygotsky graduates from Moscow University
1918	1920	Vygotsky works at Gomel' Teachers' College
1918	1920	Vygotsky interested in reflexology
1924		Vygotsky invited to take up a junior position at the Institute of Psychology
1924		Vygotsky presents 1st major psychological study
1925		Vygotsky finishes doctoral thesis, "The Psychology of Art"
1925		Vygotsky organises Laboratory of Psychology for Abnormal Childhood in Moscow
1925		Vygotsky moves to Bolshaia Serpukhovskaia Street
1926		Vygotsky's "Pedagogical psychology"
1928		Vygotsky's "Pedology of the school age"
1931		Vygotsky's "Pedology of the adolescent"
1931		Vygotsky's lab closed down
1933 March		1st documented use by Vygotsky of ZPD
1933		Vygotsky's "Play and its role in the mental development of the child"
1933 March		Vygotsky's "The pedalogical analysis of the pedagogical process"
1933 May		Vygotsky's "Development of everyday and scientiﬁc concepts in school children"
1934 June		Death of Vygotsky
1934		Vygotsky's "Thinking and speech"
1934		Death of Vygotsky
1956		Vygotsky's "Collected psychological studies"
1960		Vygotsky's "History of the development of higher mental functions" first published