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This book describes an approach for the education of 3–8 year-old children in primary school, which was developed in the Netherlands on the basis of Vygotskij’s cultural-historical theory of human development. The purpose of the book is to clarify the views and concepts underlying this approach, to present illustrative practices, and to explain the strategies for the implementation of the approach in the lower grades of Dutch primary school classrooms (grades 1 through 4). Given the theoretical tenets of the approach and the strongly theory-driven applications and implementation strategies, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to assume that most of the understandings described here may be applicable under appropriate circumstances beyond the borders of the Netherlands.
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A note on the transliteration of Russian names must be given. Although we have striven to be consistent in the transliteration of Russian names into the Roman alphabet, some inconsistency is unavoidable due to the worldwide mixture of different transliteration systems in use, and the necessary acknowledgement of current customs in the spelling of frequently used names. Basically, this book will employ the United Nations system UN87 as a method of transliteration which does more justice to the actual spelling of the Russian names than the current American transliteration customs. As a result, some names may appear in different form than the ones the reader may be familiar with (like for example Vygotskij vs. Vygotsky, Lurija vs. Luria; Bachtin vs. Bakhtin etc.). In cases of renowned publications (like for example Vygotsky 1978) we did not, however, change the spelling of the names. Care has been taken to avoid ambiguity.
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van Oers, B. (2012). Introduction. In: van Oers, B. (eds) Developmental Education for Young Children. International perspectives on early childhood education and development, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4617-6_1
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