Pavel Blonsky

Pavel Petrovich Blonsky (Russian: Павел Петрович Блонский; May 26 [O.S. May 14], 1884 – February 15, 1941) was a Russian Soviet psychologist and philosopher who lived in the Ukraine until 1918. Blonsky was one of the main theorists of Soviet paedology and introduced the behaviorist approach in Russian psychology (under the label "objective Marxist psychology"). After the publication of the anti-paedology decree "On Paedological Distortions in the System of People's Commissariat of Education" [1] (1936) he was severely criticized for his adherence to psychological testing and studies of inborn capabilities (which contradicted the official Soviet ideology of "inborn equality of all people").[2][3][4]

Pavel Blonsky
Born(1884-05-26)May 26, 1884
Kyiv, Russian Empire
DiedFebruary 15, 1941(1941-02-15) (aged 56)
Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1910)
Known forBeing a founder of Soviet paedology
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsMoscow State University

Life and work

Blonsky was born to a petty szlachta family, an official of Nobility Guardianship ("Дворянская опека") Peter (Zygmunt) Błoński (Петр (Сигизмунд) Матвеевич Блонский) of mixed Spanish-Polish-Russian-Ukrainian ancestry.[2]

Blonsky's search for a new psychology began with the condemnation of philosophical idealism that he - the specialist in Plato and neo-Platonism - now considered to be clearly irreconcilable with "normal common sense".

Published works
  • Задачи и методы народной школы (1916)
  • Философия Плотина (1918)
  • Проблема реальности у Беркли. Киев, 1907.
    • Блонский П. П. Проблема реальности у Беркли. М.: Книжный дом «ЛИБРОКОМ», 2009. — 160 с. (Из наследия мировой философской мысли: история философии.)
  • Современная философия, т. 1-2 (1918—1922)
  • Трудовая школа (1919)
  • Реформа науки (1920)
  • Очерк научной психологии (1921)
  • Психологические очерки (1927)
  • Очерки детской сексуальности (1928)
  • Педология (1934)
  • Память и мышление (1935, переиздана в 2001)
  • К проблеме воспоминания. М., Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2008.
  • Развитие мышления школьника (1935)
  • Избранные педагогические произведения, — М., 1961;
  • Избранные психологические произведения. — М., 1964;
  • Избранные педагогические и психологические сочинения. Т. 1–2. — М., 1979.
  • Психологический анализ припоминания М., Директмедиа Паблишинг, 2008.

References
  1.  Russian Wikisource has original text related to this article: "On Paedological Distortions in the System of People's Commissariat of Education"
  2. Уткин Анатолий Валерьевич, "ИССЛЕДОВАТЕЛЬ ИСКЛЮЧИТЕЛЬНОГО ДАРОВАНИЯ: К ЮБИЛЕЮ ПАВЛА ПЕТРОВИЧА БЛОНСКОГО (1884-1941)", Историко-педагогический журнал, no. 3, 2019 (in a viewer, abbreviated text)
  3. Mihail Gerasimovich Danilchenko, "Pavel Petrovich Blonsky", Prospects 23, 113–124 (1993), doi:10.1007/BF02195029
  4. Сергей СТЕПАНОВ, ПАВЕЛ ПЕТРОВИЧ БЛОНСКИЙ (in Russian)


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