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Jean Piaget
 This Web site contains a brief biography of Piaget.
http://www.piaget.org/biography/biog.html
 This Web site provides a brief biography, as well as an overview of Piaget’s theories
and stages of development. The sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operations,
and formal operations stages are explained clearly and examples and diagrams are
provided to aid understanding. http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/piaget.html
 1999 Time Magazine article on Piaget. The article describes his life and work, with
particular emphasis on the contributions he made to understanding how children
learn. http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/piaget.html
 This is a link to an excerpt from Piaget’s work The Construction of Reality in the
Child. Assimilation and accommodation are discussed, as are movement through the
sensorimotor to formal operations stages.
http://marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/piaget2.htm
 This is a link to comments Piaget made on Vygotsky’s work. Piaget wrote these
comments after reading Chapter 2 and excerpts from Chapter 6 of Vygotsky’s
Thought and Language.
http://marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/comment/piaget.htm
 Piaget’s Research and Theories:
 1923-1952 - Piaget Describes Stages of Cognitive Development
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh23pi.html
 Cognitive Development Ala Piaget
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html
 Cognitive Development Theory (Definition, Discussion and Impact)
http://www.funderstanding.com/piaget.cfm
 Genetic Epistomology http://tip.psychology.org/piaget.html
 Piaget's Conservation Experiment
http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/Just4Fun/Jokes/PiagetExp.htm
 The Preoperational Child
http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/Just4Fun/Jokes/PreOpChild.htm
 Describes Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/piaget.html
 Jean Piaget’s Genetic Epistemology: Appreciation and Critique.
http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~campber/piaget.html
 Overview of Piaget’s stage theory.
http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/assign2/MH/webpage.htm
 Provides a brief overview of Piaget’s background and theories. Also provides
suggestions for incorporating Piaget’s theories in the classroom.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/piaget.htm
Lev Vygotsky
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A general link to the “Vygotsky Archive”—contains links to a biography of Vygotsky,
images, descriptions of his major writings as well as excerpts from these writings, and links
to further readings on the topic. http://marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/index.htm
 Biography: http://marxists.org/glossary/people/v/y.htm#vygotsky-lev
 Image gallery: http://marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/images/index.htm
 Selected chapters of Thinking and Speaking:
http://marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/works/words/index.htm
 Lecture given by Andy Blunden (2001) on the subject of Vygotsky:
http://home.mira.net/~andy/seminars/chat.htm
Overview of Vygotsky’s ideas on language acquisition. http://www.sk.com.br/sk-vygot.html
Provides a brief overview of Vygotsky’s life and work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Vygotsky
Provides an overview of Vygotsky’s social development theory.
http://www.educationau.edu.au/archives/CP/04l.htm
More on Vygotsky’s social development theory.
http://chd.gse.gmu.edu/immersion/knowledgebase/theorists/constructivism/vygotsky.htm
Discusses Vygotsky and the social learning cognition model.
http://www.funderstanding.com/vygotsky.cfm
Contains suggestions for using Vygotsky’s ideas in the classroom.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/vygotsky.htm
This Web site entitled “The Vygotsky Project” includes links to many Web sites about
Vygotsky’s life and work. http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/vygotsky.html
 “Semiotics of Play”—In this article, Rafal Dziurla looks at the importance of some of
Vygotsky's ideas about play. The focus of the paper is on the role Vygotsky gave to
play in the development of generalisation (meaning).
http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/dziurla.html
 Prologue to Collected Works Vol. 5--Carl Ratner introduces the reader to the most
important concepts Vygotsky discusses in Collected Works Volume 5. These include
higher / lower psychological processes, integration of psychological processes,
qualitative change, and form / content. Ratner does a very good job at introducing
and summerizing Vygotsky's ideas from Child Pychology.
http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/childpsych.html
 “His Life: By Gita Vygodskaya”—Gita Vygodskaya reflects on growing up with her
father. http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/gita.html
 Piaget and Vygotsky--James Wertsch and Mike Cole give an good comparison of
Vygotsky and Piaget's theories of child development. They argue that the division of
social and individual does not hold up because both Vygotsky and Piaget valued the
individual and social forces in development. Both saw the social-individual
relationally, but by Vygotsky focusing on mediation he gave the social a very
specific role in development.
http://webpages.charter.net/schmolze1/vygotsky/colewertsch.html
Vygotsky, Piaget, and Bruner—brief comparison of the ideas and theories of these 3
theorists. http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/methods/instrctn/in5lk2-4.htm
Description of Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development.
http://www.igs.net/~cmorris/zpd.html
B.F. Skinner
 A brief biography of Skinner. http://www.bfskinner.org/bio.asp
 Overview of Skinner’s theory of operant conditioning.
http://tip.psychology.org/skinner.html
 Provides biographical information, as well as information about behaviorism and
Skinner’s works and writings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.F._Skinner
 Articles written by Skinner:
 “Superstition in the Pigeon” http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Pigeon/
 “Are Learning Theories Really Necessary?”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Theories/
 “Two Types of Conditioned Reflex and a Pseudo Type”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Skinner/Twotypes/twotypes.htm
 “The Origins of Cognitive Thought”
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/us/skinner.htm
 Chapter 13 from Walden Two
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/skinnerselection.html
 “A Brief Survey of Operant Behavior” http://www.bfskinner.org/Operant.asp
 This is a link to an autobiography of the behaviorist from youth to adulthood.
Includes education, thoughts, theories, published books and papers, and behavioristic
views. http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~allanr/autobio.html
 A review of Skinner’s Verbal Behavior by Noam Chomsky.
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/1967----.htm
 Provides an overview of Skinner’s reinforcement theory.
http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Reinforcement_theory
 The Web site provides an in-depth overview of behaviorism and the tenets of
behavioral theory. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/behaviorism/
 Another overview of behaviorism. Compares Skinner’s ideas on behaviorism with
those of J.B. Watson. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behaviorism
 This is a link to an article about Skinner’s theories of behaviorism, reinforcement,
and operant conditioning.
http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/skinnere.PDF
 A modern day application of Skinner’s theory, “The Price of Consumer Loyalty”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/25/sunday/main1165276_page2.shtml
Albert Bandura
 Provides an overview of Bandura’s social learning theory.
http://tip.psychology.org/bandura.html
 Includes a brief biography of Bandura and a discussion of his theories of self efficacy
and social learning. http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/bandura.html
 Provides an overview and discussion of Bandura’s Bobo Doll experiment.
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/crimtheory/bandura.htm
 This biographical sketch of Bandura includes his youth, education, and professional
accomplishments and details his studies on adolescent aggression, social learning,
and the exercise of control. http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/bandurabio.html
 “Transmission of Aggression through Imitation of Aggressive Models”
http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Bandura/bobo.htm
 Discusses Bandura’s ideas on observational learning.
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/history/bandura.html
 “Bandura: Beliefs, Bobo, and Behavior”—an article from the American
Psychological Society publication APS Observer Online.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/0701/keynote.html
 This site contains links to publications and articles written by Bandura that can be
accessed online. http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanduraPubs.html
 This Web site provides a clear and easy-to-understand discussion of observational
learning. http://www.funderstanding.com/observational_learning.cfm
 In his own words, Bandura describes self-efficacy.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanEncy.html
 “Albert Bandura: The Man and his Contributions to Educational Psychology”—this
is a chapter from Barry Zimmerman and Dale Schunk's book Educational
Psychology: One-hundred Years of Contributions.
http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/ZimSchunkChpt5.pdf
 Discusses the history of social learning theory.
http://hsc.usf.edu/~kmbrown/Social_Cognitive_Theory_Overview.htm
 This article examines examples, processes, and applications of social learning.
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/sociallearn/index.htm