This study, which compared a Brazilian edition of the "Pedagogical Psychology" with the original in Russian, aims to highlight some original contributions of this book, published by LS Vygotsky in 1926. This article discusses some of the author´s concerns with an active and free education, taken up in a psychology marked by crisis and restructuration. Being affected by this conjuncture, the "Pedagogical Psychology"´s content is characterized for a "miscellany" of ideas, positions and divergent influences. With analysis of basic ideas and objectives presented in the material, this article seeks to extract some "unity in miscellaneous" by which the author, in mechanistic language, argues about education as human formation and educator, as an artist or fighter, valuing the environment´s role in its effectiveness, and also works in notions similar to "drama" and "crisis" of development.
Vygotsky; education; educacional psychology; teachers trainning