Editors' introduction / Harry Daniels, Michael Cole, and James V. Wertsch
[pt. 1]. Vygotsky in context
1. Vygotsky in context : 1900-1935 / René van der Veer
2. Vygotsky's demons / David Bakhurst
3. An interesting resemblance : Vygotksy, Mead and American pragmatism / Anne Edwards
4. Vygotsky, Mead, and the new sociocultural studies of identity / Dorothy Holland and William Lachicotte, Jr.
5. Vygotsky on thinking and speaking / Vera P. John-Steiner
[pt. 2]. Readings of Vygotsky
6. Terminology in L.S. Vygotsky's writings / Boris G. Meshcheryakov
7. Mediation / James V. Wertsch
8. Vygotsky and culture / Michael Cole and Natalia Gajdamaschko
9. Thought and word : the approaches of L.S. Vygotsky and G.G. Shpet / Vladimir P. Zinchenko
10. The development of children's conceptual relation to the world, with focus on concept formation in preschool children's activity / Mariane Hedegaard
11. Inside and outside the Zone of proximal development : an ecofunctional reading of Vygotsky / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez
[pt. 3]. Applications of Vygotsky's work
12. Pedagogy / Harry Daniels
13. Sociocultural theory and education of children with special needs : from defectology to remedial pedagogy / Alex Kozulin and Boris Gindis
14. Putting Vygotsky to work : the change laboratory as an application of double stimulation / Yrjö Engeström