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The Transformative Mind : Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education.

By: Material type: TextCopyright date: ©2016Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (436 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781316825976
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 150.92
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus Change -- Why the Mind? -- The Challenge of Change versus Tradition -- Interpreting Vygotsky through the Non-Neutral Lens of Activist Methodology -- Working at the Intersection of Theory and Practice -- A Personal Reflection: An Autobiographical Sketch -- Part I -- 1 Charting the Agenda: From Adaptation to Transformation -- Outline of the Transformative Activist Stance -- Methodology -- 2 Situating Theory: The Charges and Challenges of Theorizing Activism -- The Neo-Darwinian Ethos of Adaptation -- The End of Theory? -- The Charges of Research with Activist Agendas -- The Challenges of the Sought-After Future -- Theorizing Subjectivity and Mind: Progress and Challenges -- Developing Alternatives for Research with Transformative Agendas -- Foregrounding the Ethical -- Part II -- 3 Vygotsky's Project: Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Transformative Methodology -- 4 Vygotsky's Project: Relational Ontology -- The Varying Faces of Relational Approaches -- Relational Worldview: The Interface with the World -- The Complementary Roots of the Relational Worldview: Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky -- Vygotsky's Relational Ontology -- Drawing Parallels and Contrasts -- 5 Vygotsky's Project: From Relational Ontology to Transformative Worldview -- Part III -- 6 Transformative Activist Stance: Ontology and Epistemology -- Ontological Foundations of a Transformative Worldview -- The Notion of Reality in Activity Theory -- Historicity -- The Status of Change -- Reclaiming S/Objective Reality -- 7 Transformative Activist Stance: Agency -- The Dialectics of Individual-Collective Layers of Social Practices: The Centrality of Contribution.
Novelty versus Reproduction -- Acting to Matter: Agency versus Self-Control -- 8 Transformative Activist Stance: Encountering the Future through Commitment to Change -- Agency as an "Achievement" of Unique Individuality through Togetherness -- Addressing the Risks of "Anthropocentric" Positions and "Teleology" -- "Encountering" versus Experiencing the World -- In Conclusion -- Part IV -- 9 The Mind That Matters -- A Focus on Activity -- Temporality -- The Sought-After Future: Seeing as Acting -- Life-Long Pursuits of Agentive Becoming -- The Ethical Dimensions -- Mediation and Meaning Making -- Mind and Brain -- 10 Illustration: Memory and Anticipation of the Future -- Comparison to Other Approaches -- Summing Up: Drawing More Parallels and Contrasts -- Part V -- 11 Implications for Education: Teaching-Learning and Development as Activist Projects -- Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Learning and Development from a Transformative Activist Stance -- Identity and Learning -- The Tools of Activist Agency and Identity -- Problematizing What Education Is For -- Solidarity and Freedom -- Concluding Remarks: Toward Democracy and a Pedagogy of Daring -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: This book's innovative transformative activist stance critically refashions human development and education interface. Surveying a vast interdisciplinary field, it dispels the myths about passive adaptation demonstrating instead how the agentive mind is intertwined with co-authoring dynamics of collaborative practices to disclose unlimited potential for teaching-learning and social justice pedagogies of daring.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Setting the Stage. The Paradox of Continuity versus Change -- Why the Mind? -- The Challenge of Change versus Tradition -- Interpreting Vygotsky through the Non-Neutral Lens of Activist Methodology -- Working at the Intersection of Theory and Practice -- A Personal Reflection: An Autobiographical Sketch -- Part I -- 1 Charting the Agenda: From Adaptation to Transformation -- Outline of the Transformative Activist Stance -- Methodology -- 2 Situating Theory: The Charges and Challenges of Theorizing Activism -- The Neo-Darwinian Ethos of Adaptation -- The End of Theory? -- The Charges of Research with Activist Agendas -- The Challenges of the Sought-After Future -- Theorizing Subjectivity and Mind: Progress and Challenges -- Developing Alternatives for Research with Transformative Agendas -- Foregrounding the Ethical -- Part II -- 3 Vygotsky's Project: Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Methodology as the Philosophy of Method -- Transformative Methodology -- 4 Vygotsky's Project: Relational Ontology -- The Varying Faces of Relational Approaches -- Relational Worldview: The Interface with the World -- The Complementary Roots of the Relational Worldview: Dewey, Piaget, and Vygotsky -- Vygotsky's Relational Ontology -- Drawing Parallels and Contrasts -- 5 Vygotsky's Project: From Relational Ontology to Transformative Worldview -- Part III -- 6 Transformative Activist Stance: Ontology and Epistemology -- Ontological Foundations of a Transformative Worldview -- The Notion of Reality in Activity Theory -- Historicity -- The Status of Change -- Reclaiming S/Objective Reality -- 7 Transformative Activist Stance: Agency -- The Dialectics of Individual-Collective Layers of Social Practices: The Centrality of Contribution.

Novelty versus Reproduction -- Acting to Matter: Agency versus Self-Control -- 8 Transformative Activist Stance: Encountering the Future through Commitment to Change -- Agency as an "Achievement" of Unique Individuality through Togetherness -- Addressing the Risks of "Anthropocentric" Positions and "Teleology" -- "Encountering" versus Experiencing the World -- In Conclusion -- Part IV -- 9 The Mind That Matters -- A Focus on Activity -- Temporality -- The Sought-After Future: Seeing as Acting -- Life-Long Pursuits of Agentive Becoming -- The Ethical Dimensions -- Mediation and Meaning Making -- Mind and Brain -- 10 Illustration: Memory and Anticipation of the Future -- Comparison to Other Approaches -- Summing Up: Drawing More Parallels and Contrasts -- Part V -- 11 Implications for Education: Teaching-Learning and Development as Activist Projects -- Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Learning and Development from a Transformative Activist Stance -- Identity and Learning -- The Tools of Activist Agency and Identity -- Problematizing What Education Is For -- Solidarity and Freedom -- Concluding Remarks: Toward Democracy and a Pedagogy of Daring -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

This book's innovative transformative activist stance critically refashions human development and education interface. Surveying a vast interdisciplinary field, it dispels the myths about passive adaptation demonstrating instead how the agentive mind is intertwined with co-authoring dynamics of collaborative practices to disclose unlimited potential for teaching-learning and social justice pedagogies of daring.

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