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	Lev Vygotsky - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lev Vygotsky was born in Orsha, Russian Empire (now in Belarus) to a Jewish family and grew up in Homel.
		Vygotsky's work appeared largely forgotten after his death, and his work in early cognitive development does not appear to have influenced cognitive developmentalists such as Jean Piaget.
		Vygotsky's work became extremely influential because it offered a way of reconciling the competing notions of maturation by which a child is seen as an unfolding flower best left to develop on his or her own, and behaviourism, in which a child is seen as a blank slate onto which must be poured knowledge.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Lev_Vygotsky (531 words)

	Lev Vygotsky -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (November 17 (November 5 ((Click link for more info and facts about O.S.) O.S.)), 1896—June 11, 1934) was a (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russian developmental (A scientist trained in psychology) psychologist, discovered by the Western world in the 1960s.
		Vygotsky believed that children could perform and achieve more difficult problems when they were guided and supported by another competent individual, generally an adult.
		Vygotsky's work appeared largely forgotten after his death, and his work in early cognitive development does not appear to have influenced cognitive developmentalists such as (Swiss psychologist remembered for his studies of cognitive development in children (1896-1980)) Jean Piaget.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/le/lev_vygotsky.htm (614 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (Psychology And Psychiatry, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		His Thought and Language (1934) is a classic text in psycholinguistics.
		See J. Wertsch, Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind (1985).
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