Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin

Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin ( Russian Даниил Борисович Эльконин ; born February 16, 1904 , † October 4, 1984 in Moscow ) was a Soviet educator and psychologist .

His main areas of work included game theory , elementary school education, developmental psychology and psychodiagnostics. Elkonin worked as a primary school teacher and at the Teacher Training College in Leningrad as an assistant to Lev Vygotsky . He wrote his doctorate on the development of language in high school students. After the Second World War he led a. a. the Laboratory for the Psychology of Younger Schoolchildren. From Elkonin's school pedagogical research, which began in Moscow at the end of the 1950s, the "Theory of Developing Education" (Elkonin-Dawydow system) arose in collaboration with Vasily Dawydow . Elkonin became famous for the theory of the game he developed.

Elkonin's scientific research is based on the views of cultural-historical psychology and activity theory . He worked closely with Alexej Nikolajewitsch Leontjew , Alexander Romanowitsch Lurija and Pjotr ​​J. Galperin , among others .

Works

• On the psychology of the preschool age , people and knowledge, Berlin 1967.
• Psychology of the game , Pahl-Rugenstein, Cologne 1980.
• Psychology of the game , ed. v. Birger Siebert and Georg Rückriem, Lehmanns Media, Berlin 2010.

literature

• P. Hakkarainen, N. Veresov: DB El'konin and the Evolution of Developmental Psychology . In: Journal of Russian and East European Psychology 37, 1999, p. 6.

Web links

• Literature by and about Daniil Borissowitsch Elkonin in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the Psychological Institute of Moscow University: curriculum vitae and full bibliography (Russian)
• CV and bibliography (Russian)