Learning Activity and Development

• Joachim Lompscher & Mariane Hedegaard: Introduction

Societal Forms of Thinking and Knowledge

• Mariane Hedegaard: The Influence of Societal Knowledge Traditions on Children’s Thinking and Conceptual Development

• Juan Daniel Ramírez-Garrido, Maria J. Cala-Carrillo, & José A. Sánchez-Medina: Speech Genres and Rhetoric: The Development of Ways of Argumentation in a Program of Adult Literacy

• Bernd Fichtner: Activity Theory as Methodology — The Epistemological Revolution of the Computer and the Problem of its Societal Appropriation

• Georg Rückriem: The Crisis of Knowledge

Teaching/Learning Activity in Theory and Practice

• V.V. Davydov: What is Real Teaching Activity?

• Joachim Lompscher: Learning Activity, and its Formation: Ascending from the Abstract to the Concrete

• Nina F. Talysina: Psychological Mechanisms of Generalization

Social Interaction, Development of Motives, and Self-Evaluation

• Seth Chaiklin: Developmental Teaching in Upper-Secondary School: Interactions between Teaching Form and Students’ Motives

• Felice Carugati: From Piaget and Vygotsky to Learning Activities: A Long Journey and an Inescapable Issue

• Galina A. Zuckerman: Diagnosing Learning Initiative

• Yury A. Poluyanov & T.A. Matiss: Evaluation Formation at the Initial Stage of Learning Activities

Play and Spontaneous Learning and Teaching

• Bert van Oers: Teaching Opportunities in Play

• Elena E. Kravtsova: Preconditions for Developmental Learning Activity at Pre-School Age

• Genady Kravtsov & Elena L. Berezhzhkovskaya: The Education of Pre-School Children