Vygotsky on imagination: Why an understanding of the imagination is an important issue for schoolteachers

Lev Vygotsky was an educational theorist and psychologist of extraordinarily wide knowledge whose major writings deal with the entire learning‐teaching‐development enterprise. Despite wide‐ranging interests towards Vygotskian theory, the issue of imagination remains outside of the main line of the general inquiries. Thus there is a gap in that list of “Vygotskiana” topics that are studied in North America: Vygotsky’s writings about the imagination and its development have only recently became a topic of the discussion. This article attempts to fill the gap.