| List of Contributors | |
| Series Foreword | |
| Introduction: Sociocultural Theory and Education: Students, Teachers, and Knowledge | 1 |
| 1 | Psychological Tools and Mediated Learning | 15 |
| 2 | The Zone of Proximal Development in Vygotsky's Analysis of Learning and Instruction | 39 |
| 3 | Vygotsky's Doctrine of Scientific Concepts: Its Role for Contemporary Education | 65 |
| 4 | Some Cognitive Tools of Literacy | 83 |
| 5 | Dynamic Assessment of the Evolving Cognitive Functions in Children | 99 |
| 6 | Periods in Child Development: Vygotsky's Perspective | 119 |
| 7 | Development Through the Lifespan: A Neo-Vygotskian Approach | 138 |
| 8 | Learning and Development of Preschool Children from the Vygotskian Perspective | 156 |
| 9 | The Learning Activity in the First Years of Schooling: The Developmental Path Toward Reflection | 177 |
| 10 | Remediation Through Education: Sociocultural Theory and Children with Special Needs | 200 |
| 11 | Cultural-Historical Theory and Mathematics Education | 225 |
| 12 | Sociocultural Theory and the Practice of Teaching Historical Concepts | 246 |
| 13 | Formation of Learning Activity and Theoretical Thinking in Science Teaching | 267 |
| 14 | How Literature Discussion Shapes Thinking: ZPDs for Teaching/Learning Habits of the Heart and Mind | 289 |
| 15 | Beyond Cognition: A Vygotskian Perspective on Emotionality and Teachers' Professional Lives | 317 |
| 16 | Intrapersonal Communication and Internalization in the Second Language Classroom | 349 |
| 17 | Mediation in Cognitive Socialization: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status | 371 |
| 18 | Cultural Modeling: CHAT as a Lens for Understanding Instructional Discourse Based on African American English Discourse Patterns | 393 |
| 19 | The Relations of Learning and Student Social Class: Toward Re-"socializing" Sociocultural Learning Theory | 411 |
| 20 | Vygotsky in the Mirror of Cultural Interpretations | 432 |
| Author Index | 451 |
| Subject Index | 457 |