The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology

The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology PDF eBook
Author Anton Yasnitsky
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1060
Release 2014-09-30
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1316060454

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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.

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology PDF eBook
Author Jaan Valsiner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 672
Release 2007-06-04
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1139463950

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This book, first published in 2007, is an international overview of the state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology - as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline - cultural psychology - that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and semiotics. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from fifteen countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. It emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge; turn social norms into ethics; and set history into motion.

The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy

The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy PDF eBook
Author David R. Olson
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 625
Release 2009-02-16
Genre Education
ISBN 0521862205

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This volume demonstrates how literacy is more than learning to read and write. Literacy creates communities, organizes personal and social lives, makes possible civil society and the rule of law, and underwrites the commitment of both modern and developing societies to universal education and ever higher levels of literate competence. Everything that is involved in being and becoming literate is the concern of this interdisciplinary group of distinguished scholars.

The Cambridge Handbook of Identity

The Cambridge Handbook of Identity
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Identity PDF eBook
Author Michael Bamberg
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 1334
Release 2021-11-11
Genre Psychology
ISBN 110861728X

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While 'identity' is a key concept in psychology and the social sciences, researchers have used and understood this concept in diverse and often contradictory ways. The Cambridge Handbook of Identity presents the lively, multidisciplinary field of identity research as working around three central themes: (i) difference and sameness between people; (ii) people's agency in the world; and (iii) how identities can change or remain stable over time. The chapters in this collection explore approaches behind these themes, followed by a close look at their methodological implications, while examples from a number of applied domains demonstrate how identity research follows concrete analytical procedures. Featuring an international team of contributors who enrich psychological research with historical, cultural, and political perspectives, the handbook also explores contemporary issues of identity politics, diversity, intersectionality, and inclusion. It is an essential resource for all scholars and students working on identity theory and research.

The Cambridge Handbook of Play

The Cambridge Handbook of Play
Title The Cambridge Handbook of Play PDF eBook
Author Peter K. Smith
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2018-11-15
Genre Psychology
ISBN 1108135501

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Play takes up much of the time budget of young children, and many animals, but its importance in development remains contested. This comprehensive collection brings together multidisciplinary and developmental perspectives on the forms and functions of play in animals, children in different societies, and through the lifespan. The Cambridge Handbook of Play covers the evolution of play in animals, especially mammals; the development of play from infancy through childhood and into adulthood; historical and anthropological perspectives on play; theories and methodologies; the role of play in children's learning; play in special groups such as children with impairments, or suffering political violence; and the practical applications of playwork and play therapy. Written by an international team of scholars from diverse disciplines such as psychology, education, neuroscience, sociology, evolutionary biology and anthropology, this essential reference presents the current state of the field in play research.

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology

The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology
Title The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology PDF eBook
Author Jaan Valsiner
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 1149
Release 2012-03-08
Genre Psychology
ISBN 0199930635

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The goal of cultural psychology is to explain the ways in which human cultural constructions -- for example, rituals, stereotypes, and meanings -- organize and direct human acting, feeling, and thinking in different social contexts. A rapidly growing, international field of scholarship, cultural psychology is ready for an interdisciplinary, primary resource. Linking psychology, anthropology, sociology, archaeology, and history, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the quintessential volume that unites the variable perspectives from these disciplines. Comprised of over fifty contributed chapters, this book provides a necessary, comprehensive overview of contemporary cultural psychology. Bridging psychological, sociological, and anthropological perspectives, one will find in this handbook: - A concise history of psychology that includes valuable resources for innovation in psychology in general and cultural psychology in particular - Interdisciplinary chapters including insights into cultural anthropology, cross-cultural psychology, culture and conceptions of the self, and semiotics and cultural connections - Close, conceptual links with contemporary biological sciences, especially developmental biology, and with other social sciences - A section detailing potential methodological innovations for cultural psychology By comparing cultures and the (often differing) human psychological functions occuring within them, The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology is the ideal resource for making sense of complex and varied human phenomena.

Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity

Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity
Title Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity PDF eBook
Author Lynda D. Stone
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 147
Release 2019-10-17
Genre Education
ISBN 110710503X

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Through the use of new analytical tools, this book presents a dynamic, sociocultural view of behavioural regulation in learning contexts.