Lev Vygotsky
Lev Vygotsky was a Russian national psychologist who was born on November 17, 1896. He is one of the leading psychologists in the field of developmental psychology and also founded historical-cultural psychology. However, it has only been possible since 1960 to know the work of this psychologist around the world, since translations into different languages were previously based on what was permitted by the Soviet regime. His work is based on topics such as: the origin and development of higher mental functions, philosophy of science, the relationship between learning and human development, the relationship between language and thinking and play understood as a phenomenon psychological. One of the most important statements is that it indicated that intelligence developed through psychological tools that were in the child's environment. Being the language a fundamental tool. I admire this referent of psychology, because it includes within its theories the sociocultural co...