The Dynamic Display of Process: Historical Development and Contemporary Uses of the Microgenetic Method

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by S. Karger AG in Human Development

Vol. 29 (5) , 252-263
https://doi.org/10.1159/000273062

Abstract

Microgenetic theory and methods, associated principally with the work of Werner, Vygotsky, and Luria, have a complex and insufficiently known history and a confused identity in contemporary usage. A historically based account of the rationales behind microgenetic methodology, and an analysis of some recent uses and misuses of the notion of microgenesis, leads to a reappraisal of its utility for contemporary developmental theory and research.

Keywords

COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENTAL THEORY
DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES
METHODOLOGY
MICROGENESIS

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