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Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of... Read more
- Introduction
- A Social Psychology from First Principles
- Activity, Thought, Language
- Thinking and Communicating
- Language: Wanted Alive
- From "Meaning" and "Mental Representation" to Language-Games
- Speaking, Individual Development, Cultural Development
- Higher Psychological Functions in and as Societal Relations
- Double Ascension from Abstract to Concrete
- From Work to Representation
- Personality, Identity
- Documentary Method to Human Learning and Development
- Epilogue
Biography
Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science at the University of Victoria. He studies knowing, learning, and development across the life span in formal and informal educational settings and in the workplace.
"Roth provides plentiful diagrams, photographs, and examples to help illustrate his points, and thoughtful subheadings make the text more accessible. Using Vygotsky’s work, the author develops categories to theorize an ever-evolving life, including the language humans use to take control of their circumstances and discuss the situations in which they live. -Stephen Schroth, PhD, Associate Professor at Towson University
