Voices of the Mind is a concise, creative integration of several major theories concerning the fundamentally social nature of human thought. It has special appeal to readers interested in theories of learning and the relationship between culture and cognition as it is played out in the course of everyday life. Harvard Educational Review Wertsch has a lucid understanding of Vygotsky's ... Read moreand Bakhtin's ideas, and his transitions from one concept to another are smooth, clearly presented, and supported with examples...Voices has many insights to offer that are not often encountered in the literature on rhetoric and composition. Moreover, Wertsch holds true to the sociocultural approach's holistic nature, grounding his research on theory and his theory on research.
John Scenters-Zapico Rhetoric Science Quarterly Wertsch...has again written a major contribution to psychological, social, and educational sciences...In his previous books, he has been an interpreter In this new book he has begun to assemble his own theory into a single volume The range of literature cited and used is impressive, and the scholarship enviable...It will be a key volume in the emergent debates of the 1990s in several disciplines.
Ronald Gallimore, School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Show Less