Institutional Memory

There are multiple histories of the diverse ways by which researchers around the world have encountered and transformed ideas originating from psychologists and linguists in Moscow, Leningrd, Kharkov, Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s. This page provides some fragments of more recent efforts to continue to elaborate and develop those ideas.

Transition of SSCS and ISCRAT into ISCAR

• History of the Transition
• ISCRAT-SSCS Transition Committee
• Minutes from Transition Committee Meeting, 16 June 2001 (Aarhus, Denmark)
• Minutes from Transition Committee Meeting, 20 July 2000 (Campinas, Brazil)

Society for SocioCultural Studies (SSCS)

• Short History of SSCS
• Conference for Socio-cultural Research (and Publications)
  • Madrid (1992) — “ ”
    — Book Publications

    — del Río, P., Álvarez, A. & Wertsch, J. V. (General Editors) (1994). Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies. ISBN Obra completa: 84-88926-00-6 (4 vols.)

    — Rosa, A. & Valsiner, J. (Eds.) (1994). Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies, Vol. 1. Historical and Theoretical Discourse. 256 pp. ISBN: 84-88926-01-4.

    — Wertsch, J. V. & Ramírez, J. D. (Eds.) (1994). Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies, Vol. 2. Literacy and Other Forms of Mediated Action. 208 pp. ISBN: 84-88926-02-2.

    — Mercer, N. & Coll, C. (Eds.) (1994). Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies, Vol. 3. Teaching, Learning and Interaction. 224 pp. ISBN: 84-88926-03-0.

    — Álvarez, A. & del Río, P. (Eds.) (1994). Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies, Vol. 4. Education as Cultural Construction. 252 pp. ISBN: 84-88926-04-9.
  • Geneva (1996) — “Vygotsky-Piaget”
  • Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil (2000) — “New conditions of knowledge production: Globalization and social practices”
    — Papers

International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory (ISCRAT)

• Short History of ISCRAT
• Congresses (and Publications)
  • Berlin (1986) — “ ”
    — Congress Proceedings
  • Lahti, Finland (1990) — “Individuality and Transformation”
    — Book Publication: Perspectives in Activity Theory

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  • Moscow (1995) — “Activity Theory and Social Practice”
  • Aarhus, Denmark (1998) — “Activity Theory and Cultural Historical Approaches to Social Practice”
    — Congress Programme

    — Book of Abstracts

    Hedegaard, Mariane, & Chaiklin, Seth (Eds.). (1998). Activity theory and cultural historical approaches to social practice: Abstracts from the 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural Research and Activity Theory. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University.

    available through inter-library loan, ISBN number: 8798508253

    — Book Publications
  • Amsterdam (2002) — “Dealing with Diversity: Tools and Resources for Human Development in Social Practices”
    — Congress Programme

ISCRAT Organizational Documents

• Executive Committee (1998-2002)
• Minutes from the General Meeting, Amsterdam, 19 June 2002
• Minutes from the Executive Committee Meeting, Campinas, Brazil, 17 July 2000
• Minutes from the Executive Committee Meeting, Amsterdam, 12 June 1999
• Minutes from the General Meeting, Aarhus, 10 June 1998
• Minutes from the ISCRAT Working Committee Meeting, Rome, 10-13 December 1993
• Minutes of Foundation, 20 February 1988
• Founding Statutes of ISCRAT (1988)