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Toward Cultural–Historical Theory
2018This chapter contains three notes written between 1926 and 1928. The notes discuss the need to define the object and method of the new Marxist psychology, whose creation Vygotsky deemed essential in “The historical meaning of the psychological crisis.”
Еkaterina Zavershneva +1 more
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Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and Action Research
Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2011The aim of this special issue is to provide a platform for comprehensive and critical discussion of the issues arising from methodology and practice in the experience of those working in the field of socio-cultural research with a cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and/or action research (AR) orientation.
Somekh, Bridget, Nissen, Morten
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Linguistic Research Meets Cultural-Historical Theory
Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2006In this article, we apply tools from cultural historical theory to an analysis of a series of meetings between a group of linguists and one of Mayan women. The article describes a journey from the two groups' initial acquaintance to the formation of a shared object—a literacy project—thereby providing an analysis of six visits to Nebaj, Guatemala ...
Katherine Brown, Jule Gomez de Garcia
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Cultural-historical play theory
2017The cultural-historical approach to children's play is part of Vygotsky's general theory of the origin and development of the higher mental functions. Vygotsky advanced the view that pretend symbolic play is the leading activity from 3 to 7 years.
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Understanding Cultural Historical Activity Theory
2010This chapter will focus on the contributions of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky and post-Vygotskian scholars who played a critical role in the development of Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and the emergence of activity systems analysis. I will begin with a discussion of the historical background that is related to the CHAT literature.
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The Self in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
Theory & Psychology, 2004This paper suggests a framework in which the importance of the individual dimension and agency can be reclaimed within a profoundly social and relational view of the self. Juxtaposed with recent research on the self, cultural-historical activity theory is discussed, including its foundational premises formulated by Vygotsky and its conception of the ...
Anna Stetsenko, Igor M. Arievitch
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The Prehistory of Cultural-Historical Theory
2018The chapter offers an account of the prehistory of Vygotsky’s theory. More concretely, the chapter provokes an engagement with the conceptual and methodological issues that arose in Vygotsky’s creative development before the emergence of cultural-historical theory.
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Learning, Development, and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
2012In this chapter, we (a) contextualize early childhood science and (b) outline the foundation of our approach: cultural-historical activity. We focus on the dynamic aspects of the theory, as A. N. Leont’ev originally presented it and as it was subsequently further developed by Russian (Il’enkov, Mikhailov) and Western scholars (Holzkamp, Dreier, Nissen).
Wolff-Michael Roth +2 more
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The Formation of Cultural-Historical Theory
2018The chapter turns to the period of the formation of Vygotsky’s theory. In the last few years of his life, Vygotsky was not satisfied with the level of development of his own theory. He reformulated his own theory in order to respond to the theoretical and practical challenges that arose in the process of his development both as a scholar and ...
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