Vygotsky and research
This book provides readers with an overview of the implications for research of the theoretical work which acknowledges a debt to the writings of L.S. Vygotsky. A concise introduction to Vygotsky's original thesis and discussions on his approach to research methods is given; this is followed by...
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Table of Contents:
- Vygotsky and Research
- Figures and tables
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 An introduction to Vygotskian theory
- Mediation
- Tools, signs and artefacts as mediators
- Social origins of higher mental functioning in the individual
- Genetic or developmental method
- Scientific and everyday concepts
- The zone of proximal development
- Lower and higher elementary functioning
- Sense/meaning
- Chapter 2 An overview of research undertaken by Vygotsky and some of his colleagues
- The process of dialectical synthesis
- Developmental perspective
- Anti-reductionism
- The method of dual stimulation
- Note
- Chapter 3 The sociocultural tradition
- Separability
- Process ontology
- Mediated action
- Bakhtin and {u2018}voice{u2019}
- Dialectical or dialogical models?
- Appropriation and mastery
- Remembering
- Transformation of theories
- The wider situation of development
- Chapter 4 Researching distributed cognition
- Distributed cognition
- Shared or distributed models
- Cognitive ethnography
- Dynamics of historical change
- Situated cognition, situated learning and communities of practice
- The situated development of theory
- External representations
- Chapter 5 Situated action and communities of practice
- Transfer from situation to situation
- Beyond {u2018}within the head{u2019} models
- Methods for situated accounts
- Community of practice
- Power, conflict and history in communities of practice
- Knowledge in a community of practice
- Developments of the community of practice idea
- Implications of the situated learning approach
- Applications of the community of practice approach
- Funds of knowledge and third spaces
- Chapter 6 Activity theory and interventionist research
- Early twentieth-century Russian activity theory
- Engeström{u2019}s development of activity theory
- Five principles of cultural historical activity theory
- Expansive learning
- Dialogicality and multi-voicedness
- Boundary objects, translation, and boundary-crossing
- Cognitive trails
- Labour power
- Developmental work research
- An application of developmental work research
- An activity theory analysis of learning in and for inter-school work
- Chapter 7 Institutions and beyond
- The production of artefacts and the institutional level of analysis
- Categories and the regulation of institutional activities
- The structure of institutions
- Describing discourse as a cultural historical product
- Tentative application of a Bernsteinian approach within CHAT
- Positioning the subject
- Change
- Institutions as historical products
- Hybridity
- Note
- References
- Index.