O artigo estabelece relações de proximidade e contradições entre as concepções teórico-metodologicas desenvolvidas pelos pensadores Lev Vigostsky Paulo Freire acerca dos processos desenvolvimento cognitivo pessoas adultas.

“Context” has been increasingly featured and acknowledged in second language (L2) research because L2 teaching is recognised to be shaped by the environments which it situated. Numerous theoretical perspectives were introduced that aim capture contextual forces at work learning, including but not limited Activity Theory, Complexity Sociocultural Theory. Theory holds a learner's motives (human n...

The seventh international seminar on Vygotsky held in Geneva discussed a new French language translation of texts from ‘pedology,’ the now largely lost Soviet science developing child. In this introduction, guest editors touch three concepts development which coincide with elements Vygotsky’s best known idea, Zoped, or zone proximal development. each case, we find that pedological has potential...