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The Theory and Practice of Cultural-Historical Psychology

Edited by Seth Chaiklin

320 pages, softbound, 240 x 170 mm, 2001
Aarhus University Press
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The Theory and Practice of Cultural-Historical Psychology offers a selection of theoretical views and empirical investigations by both leading and young researchers from Europe, South America and North America. The volume provides a useful introduction to a broad range of open research topics in contemporary cultural-historical psychology. It will be useful to researchers working actively in the theoretical tradition and to newcomers who seek an orientation to the diverse intellectual sources and questions that characterise cultural-historical psychology today.

Reviews by:
Giyoo Hatano, Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2002, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 238-40.
Rom Harré, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, April 2003, Vol. 48, No. 2, pp. 247-8.
Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Theory and Psychology, June 2003, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 428-30.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chap. 1

The Institutionalisation of Cultural-Historical Psychology as a Multinational Practice

 

Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus

Chap. 2

The Complementarity of Theory and Praxis in the Cultural-Historical Approach: From Self-Application to Self-Regulation

 

Falk Seeger, University of Bielefeld

Chap. 3

Family Interactions as a Source of Being in Society: Language-Games and Everyday Family Discourse Genres in Language Construction

 

Roxane Helena Rodrigues Rojo, Catholic Pontifical University of São Paulo

Chap. 4

The Origins of Activity as a Category in the Philosophies of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel, and Marx

 

Charles W. Tolman, University of Victoria

Chap. 5

The Idea of Units of Analysis: Vygotsky's Contribution

 

René van der Veer, University of Leiden

Chap. 6

Contextual, Interactional, and Subjective Dimensions of Cooperation and Competition: A Co-Constructivist Analysis

 

Angela Branco, University of Brasilia

Chap. 7

The Concept of Role as Unit of Analysis of Young Peers' Interactions and Cultural Learning

 

Zilma de Moraes Ramos de Oliveira, University of São Paulo

Chap. 8

The External and Internal: Another Comment on the Issue

 

Vladimir P. Zinchenko, Russian Academy of Education

Chap. 9

Semiotic Mediation and Internalisation: The Role of Reference in Instructional Actions

 

Andrés Santamaría, University of Sevilla

Chap. 10

Intersubjectivity in Models of Learning and Teaching: Reflections from a Study of Teaching and Learning in a Mexican Mazahua Community

 

Mariëtte de Haan, University of Utrecht

Chap. 11

Lost — or Merely Domesticated? The Boom in Socio-Historicocultural Theory Emphasises Some Concepts, Overlooks Others

 

Mohamed Elhammoumi, Edgecombe Community College

Chap. 12

Activity Settings, Ways of Thinking, and Discourse Modes: An Empirical Investigation of the Heterogeneity of Verbal Thinking

 

Mercedes Cubero and Manuel L. de la Mata, University of Sevilla

Chap. 13

The Category of 'Personality' in Cultural-Historical Psychology

 

Seth Chaiklin, University of Aarhus

Chap. 14

Toward a Hermeneutical Reconstruction of Galperin's Theory of Learning

 

Gloria Fariñas León, University of Havana

Chap. 15

The Ideal in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: Issues and Perspectives

 

Peter E. Jones, Sheffield Hallam University


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