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(S5,Ep16) Overview of Vygotsky’s Theory (Veresov, 2021)

(S4,Ep68) Vygotsky's Life Could Be a Movie

(S4,Ep67) Three more concepts for literacy and life

(S4,Ep66) Using literary skills to read the world (2)

(S4,Ep65) Using literary skills to read the world (1)

(S1,EP26) Vygotskian Creativity: In Theory, Practice, and Life

(S1,Ep25) Thinking and Feeling Our Way Through Fake News

(S1,Ep24) A Tale of Two Stories - David Kellogg on Vygotsky

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(S1,Ep18) A chat about CHAT (and CHT) (re-post)

(S4,Ep64) What Are Concepts -- and How Might They Be Taught? (re-post)

(S4,Ep88) Bridging 'Everyday' to 'Academic' Concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep78) Piaget & Vygotsky: the foundational difference between them (re-post)

(S6,Ep1) Lenin's Tomb (feat. Mike Cole) (re-post)

(S5,Ep14) Building a system of concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep85) Vygotsky's theory as a system of concepts (progress update) (re-post)

(S4,Ep79) Vygotsky's Theory as a System of Concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep66) Specific features: CHT and CHAT (re-post)

(S4,Ep83) What are Neoformations? (a helpful metaphor) (re-post)

(S6,Ep14) Was Vygotsky a Social Determinist? (re-post)

(S5,Ep13) "Should I read Vygotsky?" (for teachers, parents, & the curious in general) (re-post)

(S5,Ep5) Overview of Vygotsky's Theory (Veresov, 2020) (re-post)

(S5,Ep4) Overview of Vygotsky's Theory (Wertsch, 1985) (re-post)

(S5,Ep3) Overview of Vygotsky's Theory (Chaiklin, 2003) (re-post)

(S6,Ep20) Good vs. Bad Learning (teacher's eternal dilemma) (re-post)

(S4,Ep75) Some ideas for revising classroom lessons (re-post)

(S4,Ep73) Can group problem-solving address individual shortcomings? (re-post)

(S4,Ep60) Building Semantic Memory (re-post)

(S4,Ep43) A bridge (Vygotskian research and classroom teaching) (re-post)

(S6,Ep7) Cultivating 'crisis' in the classroom (the good kind) (re-post)

(S6,Ep12) How the ZPD is a Research Tool (re-post)

(S5,Ep7) Environments for Active Learning: a Vygotskian perspective (Hillocks, 1995) (re-post)

(S4,Ep30) What is universal about human psychological development? (re-post)

(S4,Ep34) A paradigm shift (concrete task vs. development?) (re-post)

(S4,Ep10) Is Vygotsky's theory a left-wing theory? (re-post)

(S1,Ep6) Vygotsky's Role in the History of Psychology: Part 1 (re-post)

(S3,Ep1) What does the Social Situation of Development mean? (re-post)

(S3,Ep5) Was Vygotsky's breakthrough as original as advertised? (re-post)

(S3,Ep12) Vygotskian Threshold Concepts? (re-post)

(S4,Ep1) Nikolai Veresov on the misunderstanding of ZPD (re-post)

(S4,Ep5) Peter Smagorinsky on "Sturdy" Concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep7) Peter Smagorinsky on "Social" Concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep11) Nikolai Veresov on helping children - and adults - overcome obstacles (re-post)

(S4,Ep13) Peter Smagorinsky on Biological and Cultural Development (re-post)

(S4,Ep37) Transformers & Flowers (re-post)

(S5,Ep1) Notes on Dialectics, 1 (bird's-eye view) (re-post)

(S5,Ep2) Vygotsky on teaching (and learning) concepts (re-post)

(S4,Ep42) The Key to Unlocking Vygotsky? (repost)

(S4,Ep89) Building a concept vs. starting with definitions

(S4,Ep88) Bridging 'Everyday' to 'Academic' Concepts

(S4,Ep87) The origins of concepts are important

(S4,Ep86) When is dialectical logic advantageous?

(S1,Ep24) Holbrook Mahn on Teaching & Learning with Concepts

(S5,Ep 15) Some teaching-related concepts

(S6,Ep21) Memory vs. Understanding (re: concept development)

(S6,Ep19) 5 key aspects of ZPD for a deep understanding

(S3,Ep25) Perezhivanie and adult development

(S3,Ep24) What is marxism?

(S3,Ep23) David Kellogg on music, Vygotsky, and serious social problems

(S5,Ep14) Building a system of concepts

(S4,Ep85) Vygotsky's theory as a system of concepts (progress update)

(S4,Ep84) Critical and Stable Neoformations

(S1,Ep23) Development and Danger: the importance of neoformations

(S4,Ep83) What are Neoformations? (a helpful metaphor)

(S4,Ep82) 9 Laws of Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory

(S4,Ep81) A book recommendation (Vygotsky's theory)

(S4,Ep80) Ideal vs. Present: the status of Vygotsky's theory

(S1,Ep22) Giants of Science: Newton. Darwin. Copernicus. . . . Vygotsky?

(S4,Ep79) Vygotsky's Theory as a System of Concepts

(S4,Ep78) Piaget & Vygotsky: the foundational difference between them

(S5,Ep13) "Should I read Vygotsky?" (for teachers, parents, & the curious in general)

(S5,Ep12) Excerpts from "The Life of Genre, the Life in the Classroom"

(S3,Ep22) Vygotsky essentialized?

(S5,Ep11) Book review: Genre and the Invention of the Writer

(S5,Ep10) The "X" and "Y" of J. Bruner's Curricular Theory

(S5,Ep9) A genre theory model of collaborative inquiry

(S4,Ep77) An interesting assignment

(S4,Ep76) A poetry lesson - for consideration & critique

(S4,Ep75) Some ideas for revising classroom lessons

(S4,Ep74) Some inquiry approaches to the concept of "register"

(S4,Ep73) Can group problem-solving address individual shortcomings?

(S1,Ep21) Rethinking teaching from a developmental perspective

(S4,Ep72) From conscious & slow to unconscious & quick

(S1,Ep20) Knowing where to look: a finer-grained look at development

(S4,Ep71) Like a ZPD without the requirement of company?

(S4,Ep70) Five "epistemological forms" - increasingly sophisticated

(S4,Ep69) Overlooked aspects of "mental tools"

(S1,Ep19) Development of Epistemological Forms

(S4,Ep68) Where is Vygotsky in CHAT?

(S4,Ep67) What is the opposite of death?

(S4,Ep66) Specific features: CHT and CHAT

(S4,Ep65) Are the stereotypes true?

(S1,Ep18) A chat about CHAT (and CHT)

(S6,Ep18) An interesting translation/summary project

(S3,Ep21) Vygotsky - through a Labor Education lens

(S3,Ep20) Can Vygotsky be simplified? (or at least illustrated?)

(S3,Ep19) Are concepts more 'verb' than 'noun'?

(S3,Ep18) What is the relationship between HPF-development and concept-development?

(S4,Ep64) What Are Concepts -- and How Might They Be Taught?

(S4,Ep63) Pleasures and Challenges of Communicating with The Public