ABSTRACT
Over the past decade there has been a major upsurge of interest in the ideas of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934). This is reflected in the dramatic rise in citations of Vygotsky’s publications (Belmont, 1988), in the spate of new translations of his writings (Vygotsky, 1978, 1981a, 1981b, 1981c, 1986, 1987 in press, and in several new volumes about his life and work (Kozulin, 1990; A.A.Leont’ev, 1990; Minick, Forman and Stone, in press: Moll, 1990; Puzerei, 1986; Ratner, 1991; van der Veer and Valsiner, in press; Wertsch, 1985a, 1985b, 1991; Yaroshevskii, 1989).
