Psychologies in Revolution by Hannah Proctor

Author:Hannah Proctor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030350284
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Just as Soviet agricultural policies aimed to apply technological innovations to the natural material of the earth in order to yield vast grain outputs, Soviet psychologists hoped that the natural material of the child could be enhanced by cultural means.

Luria and Vygotsky celebrated artificial accretions or ‘auxiliary means’ that extend human capacities. Tools and language were central to their account of human development. Indeed, Luria described a child’s ‘entrance into life’ not as its birth, but as its initiation into the cultural world.47 The passive infant transforms into an active subject. Luria, drawing on Engels, emphasised that the formation of ‘advanced’ dialectical thinking came about through the interactions between people and their environment. Individual development could therefore not be understood in strictly natural terms:No development—that of the child included—in the conditions of modern civilized society can be reduced merely to the development of natural inborn processes and the morphological changes conditioned by the same; it includes, moreover, that social change of civilized forms and methods which help the child in adapting itself to the conditions of the surrounding civilized community.48

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