Greetings from Our Foreign Colleagues

Dear Vitaly, the celebration of your 70th birthday is a wonderful opportunity to thank you for many reasons. First, for your remarkable contributions to educational theory and practice. Standing on the shoulders of your important predecessors, aware of the role of social interactions for cognitive development, you have drawn attention to the need to consider not only adult-child but also child-child interactions. This has led you to invite educators and researchers to investigate with care the organization of the relationships in which students get involved in group work. You have found that cooperation is not sufficient. Reflection on the joint activity should be built into the pedagogical tasks to foster second-level understanding and facilitate the transition to a more efficient activity and to a further development of students' skills. This is an important inspiration for my on-going research work.

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