Recent reviews and translations
Specific of emotional experience of child-parent relations and child-parents interactions in older preschoolers by Anna Shvedovskaya
There is a wide range of classifications of family upbringing types and the corresponding diagnostic tools in Russia as well as worldwide. But the counseling practice requires age-specific models of child-parent interactions that take into consideration a child’s own activity, his (her) emotional experience of relationships with his (her) parents. The scope of the research is the connection between actual child-parent interactions and specific of the child’s emotional experience of his (her) relations with the parents. The article also mentions several innovative diagnostical tools.
The zone of proximal development in play and learning by Bredikyte Milda and Hakkarainen Pentti
The concept of the ZPD is characterized in a different way in two separate contexts (school and play) in Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology. Creative and motivational aspect of learning is emphasized in development supported by play. In play context personality development is focused on and development of psychological functions in problem solving at school. We proposed an extended concept of the ZPD, which integrates the two definitions and includes an additional distance from potentials to personality changes. In play development from the crisis of the third year to the next crisis at seven we suggest three different types of the ZPD depending on the play initiatives.
Reflection in practice and science by Natalia Snurnikova
In modern science, authors within various scientific branches and practical approaches actively research the reflective processes. This article provides an outlook of understanding "reflection" concept in Russian pedagogy, psychology and analyses it in the framework of network approach as a dialogical, co-creative process.