The Praeger Handbook of
Education and Psychology
Volume 1

The Praeger Handbook of
Education and Psychology
Volume 1

The Praeger Handbook of
Education and Psychology
Volume 1

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the future of psychology in general as well as its associated discipline, educational psychology. Indeed, the field of educational psychology would reflect these polar camps but the mainstream of the field was undoubtedly positioned within the behavioristic (or as time passed, the mechanistic) camp. Even after the decline of behaviorism as a school of psychological thought in the 1960s and 1970s, mainstream educational psychology would hang on to numerous behavioristic trappings while embracing the most mechanistic and rationalistic aspects of emerging schools of psychological thought (see Kozulin’s [1997] Introduction in Vygotsky’s Thought and Language).

JOE L. KINCHELOE AND
RAYMOND A. HORN Jr.