@article{ref1,
title="Irreconcilable differences in Vygotsky's and Bakhtin's approaches to the social and the individual: An educational perspective",
journal="Culture and psychology",
year="2011",
author="Matusov, Eugene",
volume="17",
number="1",
pages="99-119",
abstract="In Western psychology and education, up until very recently, Bakhtin has often been introduced as a scholar whose approach was compatible with and an extension of Vygotsky's cultural-historical approach. I argue that this continuity is problematic. Vygotsky's approach to the social was heavily influenced by Hegel's universalist, mono-logic, mono-logical, developmental (diachronic), activity-based philosophy. Bakhtin developed a pluralistic, essentially synchronic, dialogic, discourse- and genre-based approach to the social, involving the hybridity of co-existing competing and conflicting varieties of logic. Extrapolating Bakhtin's approach in education and psychology, I argue that from Bakhtin's dialogic framework, when a child (or any other person) is a subject of development -- as in developmental psychology, or a subject of learning -- as in education, development, its goals, and developmental values defining the teleology of the development, become (again) unknown for the participant (e.g., a developmental psychologist or parent).<p />",
language="",
issn="1354-067X",
doi="10.1177/1354067X10388840",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354067X10388840"
}