CONTENTS
Preface = ⅶ
Translator's Note = ⅸ
Abbreviations in References = xi
Introduction by the Editors = 1
PART ONE
Learning and Mental Devlopment at School Age / by L. S. VYGOTSKI[1934] = 21
Some Aspects of the Interrelation between Education and the Development of Personality / by G. S. KOSTIUK[Institute of Psychology, Kiev(1956)] = 35
The Relation between Learning and Mental Development in Schoolchildren / by D. N. BOGOIAVLENSKI ; N. A. MENCHINSKAIA[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1959)] = 50
Principles of Child Mental Development and the Problem of Intellectual Backwardness / by A. N. LEONTIEV[Department of Psychology, Moscow University(1959)] = 68
The Role of Speech in the Formation of Temporary Connections and the Regulation of Behaviour in the Normal and Oligophrenic Child / by A. R. LURIA[Department of Psychology, Moscow University(1960)] = 83
PART TWO
The Psychology of Learning, 1900 - 1960 / by D. N. BOGOIAVLENSKI ; N. A. MENCHINSKAIA[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1960)] = 101
PART THREE
The Psychology of Mastering the Elements of Reading / by D. B. ELKONIN[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1957 -9 )] = 165
Psychological Prerequisites for Increasing the Effectiveness of Learning in Problem Solving in Arithmetic / by Z. I. KALMYKOVA[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1955)] = 180
The Mastery of Scientific Concepts in School / by R. G. NATADZE[Department of Psychology, Tbilisi University(1957)] = 192
Psychology of the Mastery and Application by Schoolchildren of some Concepts in Physics / by E. A. FLESHNER[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1958)] = 198
Some Characteristics of the Thinking of Pupils with Little Capacity for Mathematics / by V. A. KRUTETSKI[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1961)] = 214
Psychological Characteristics of the Transfer of Technical Skills in Older Schoolchildren / by E. A. MILERIAN[Institute of Psychology, Kiev(1960)] = 233
Combination of the Verbal and Visual in Teaching / by L. V. ZANKOV[Institute of the Theory and History of Education, Moscow(1957)] = 243
Psychological Aspects of Artistic Education / by B. M. TEPLOV[Institute of Psychology, Moscow(1946)] = 259
Index = 281