Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge handbook of cultural-historical psychology / edited by Anton Yasnitsky, René van der Veer, Michel Ferrari.

Publication

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Ferrari, Michel, 1959-
• Veer, René van der, 1952-
• Yasnitsky, Anton,

Description

xii, 533 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. 'The Cambridge handbook of cultural-historical psychology' is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it. The contributors are major international experts in the field, and include authors of major works on Lev Vygotsky, direct collaborators and associates of Alexander Luria, and renowned neurologist, Oliver Sacks. The handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of psychology, education, humanities and neuroscience.

Series Statement

Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology

Uniform Title

Cambridge handbooks in psychology

Subject

• Culture > Psychological aspects
• Kultur
• Lurii︠a︡, A. R. 1902-1977 > Criticism and interpretation
• Psychologie
• Psychology, Social
• Social psychology
• Vygotskiĭ, L. S. 1896-1934 > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Handbooks and manuals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

What is this book and what is it about? / Anton Yasnitsky and René van der Veer -- Introducing Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology / Ronald Miller -- Vygotsky's idea of psychological tools / Janette Friedrich -- The problem of consciousness in Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology / Ekaterina Zaversheva -- Methodology of cultural-historical psychology / Aaro Toomela -- Dynamic assessment in search of its identity / Alex Kozulin -- Encountering the border : Vygotsky's zona blizhaishego reazvitia and its implications for theories of development / Jaan Valsiner and René van der Veer -- Developmental education / Galina Zuckerman -- Tracing the untraceable : the nature-nurture controversy in cultural-historical psychology / Elena L. Grigorenko -- The 'magic of signs' : developmental trajectory of cultural mediation / Igor M. Arievitch and Anna Stetsenko --^

ISBN

• 9780521762694
• 0521762693

OCLC

882899625

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library