An introduction to multiple perspectives on Davydov’s approach in the XXI century

In many countries, the twentieth century philosophy and social sciences were marked by a dialectical materialist understanding of humans and the world. This understanding revolves around the idea that human collective activity and material and ideational culture (e.g., symbols, language) play a central role in learning and development. In socialist Russia, dialectical materialist was the main philosophy that shaped research in psychology and education.