Alexander Zaporozhets biography
Alexander Vladimirovich Zaporozhets Specialist in the field of development of development and pedagogical psychology, in particular the psychology of preschool children. After graduating from the pedagogical faculty of the 2nd Moscow State University, he worked as a laboratory assistant, and then an assistant to the Department of Psychology of the Academy of Communist Education named after In the city of G.
in the early years, he worked in the hospital, was engaged in the restoration of the movements of the wounded fighters. The scientific activity of the Cossack is closely connected with the name of his teacher L. Vygotsky and his closest associates - A. Luria, A. Leontiev and their followers. From the very beginning, his diverse scientific interests were united by a single idea of the internal connection of the psyche with human activities.
Zaporozhets, along with A. Luria and A. Leontyev, was one of the creators of the psychological theory of activity and mental reflection, the foundations of which were embedded in the works of L., his studies in the field of the emergence of the psyche were widely known. At the end of the year. The Cossack, summing up the results of research on the perception of a fairy tale and drawing, came to the conclusion that perception is a special sensory action.
Subsequently, on the basis of numerous studies of touch and vision, performed together with students and employees, he formulated the main provisions of the theory of perceptual actions. This theory formed the basis for the development of methods and practice of sensory education and training of preschool children. A special place in the scientific biography of the Cossack is occupied by the study of movements and actions.
The beginning of this cycle of research was laid during the Great Patriotic War, when he developed methods for the restoration therapy of hand movements. The study of the development of arbitrary movements was continued in the post -war years and summarized in the known monograph “Development of arbitrary movements” moving from studying perception to the study of human movements, Zaporozhets dramatically changed the format of the problem of formation of actions, believing that this process is not based on the exercise of the motor sphere, but to build the image of the situation and the image of the necessary actions, the internal picture of the movement.
Like N. Bernstein, he considered movements as an organs of individuality, which was reflected in his constant interest in the psychology of the attitude and understanding of attitudes not only as preparation for action, but also as a means of expression of the personal properties and qualities of an individual. Hence, the transition of the Cossacks from the study of personality attitudes, including expressive movements, to the study of the emotional sphere of personality, is quite logical.
Having come to science from art, Zaporozhets was a talented student of the Ukrainian director Lesya Kurbas, he retained interest in art, manifested in the studies of “emotional” actions. The Cossack’s dream remained unrealized - to develop the ideas of L. Vygotsky, set forth in his unfinished work “The teachings of Spinoza about passions in the light of modern neuropsychiatry”, and write a book about human emotions.
It was this topic that was devoted to one of the latest publications of the Cossack: "The role of L. Vygotsky in the development of the problem of emotions." Poleva Source: History of Psychology in Persons. Under the general. The library fund has the following publications: publications from the image-catalog of the NPB named after Ushinsky to view the card, click on the small image at the bottom of the publication from the electronic catalog of the NPB named after