Yakov L. Kolominsky

Main task of psychologist is formation of psychological culture in educational process. Psychological culture is based on two projections: the theoretical one and a projection of psychological activity. Psychological activity has two major areas: activities directed on me and toward another person. Thus psychological culture embraces the existence of identity in two worlds: the inner world of the self and the world of interpersonal space. With respect to psychological structure of the culture, it includes own mental processes, personality, indirect knowledge of the everyday experience, as well as ways of self-analysis, self-knowledge, self-education and self-regulation.

So in description of work of psychologist we turn from the characteristics of theoretical layer of psychological culture to the layer of the activity. Psychological activity is activity that is directed on the subject himself. Psychological activity is a special work aimed at establishing meaningful correspondence between mind and being.

Presented paper highlights those areas of psychological research in Belarus, which are based on the ideas of L.S. Vygotsky’s social origins of higher mental functions, internalization of microsocial forms of interpersonal interactions as well as the social situation of development concept. Of particular importance are those sections of cultural-historical psychology, which contain the reasons that led to author’s program of research in the field of cultural studies and psychology. In the article main trends developing ideas of cultural-historical psychology of L.S. Vygotsky are presented.