Introduction / James V. Wertsch
Part I. Explicating Vygotsky's approach
Vygotsky : a historical and conceptual perspective / Jerome Bruner
Vygotsky's theory and the activity-oriented approach in psychology / V.V. Davydov and L.A. Radzikhovskii
Intellectual origins of Vygotsky's semiotic analysis / Benjamin Lee
Vygotsky's ideas about units for the analysis of mind / V.P. Zinchenko
Vygotsky's uses of history / Sylvia Scribner
The zone of proximal development : where culture and cognition create each other / Michale Cole
The concept of internalization in Vygotsky's account of the genesis of higher mental functions / James V. Wertsch and C. Addison Stone
Part II. Extending Vygotsky's approach : semiotic issues
Language acquisition as increasing linguistic structuring of experience and symbolic behavior control / Ragnar Rommetveit
The functional stratification of language and ontogenesis / Michael Silverstein
The implications of discourse skills in Vygotsky's developmental theory / Maya E. Hickmann
Language viewed as action / David McNeill
Part III. Extending Vygotsky's approach : issues in education, cognitive development, and language development
Diagnosing zones of proximal development / Ann L. Brown and Roberta A. Ferrara
The tacit background of children's judgments / Karsten Hundeide
Exploring Vygotskian perspectives in education : the cognitive value of peer interaction / Ellice A. Forman and Courtney B. Cazden
The road to competence in an alien land : a Vygotskian perspective on bilingualism / Vera John-Steiner.