
Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change
Bringing Together Theory and Practice
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Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change
Bringing Together Theory and Practice
About this book
Contemporary thinkers and researchers from different parts of the world involved in achieving human development employ Vygotsky's theory in order to deal with new social challenges arising in a global but deeply divided world (Santos, 2000; Souza e Santos, 2008; Martín-Baró, 1998). The chapters of this book shed light onto Vygotsky's initial principles adding critical and social perspectives as a way of expanding his legacy to global contemporary needs such as a critical reflection from the perspective of social change, social dynamics and human development, ethical-political situations of action power, dialectic relationship of the human being with society, contradictions in an individual's dramatic life events and awareness of the social environment to actively change the existing forms of life.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- (Post)Critical Global Studies: A Note from the Series Editors
- Introduction 1 Adolfo Tanzi Neto, Fernanda Liberali, and Manolis Dafermos
- 1. Reconstructing the Fundamental Ideas of Vygotsky’s Theory in the Contemporary Social and Scientific Context
- 2. Radical-Transformative Agency: Developing a Transformative Activist Stance on a Marxist-Vygotskyan Foundation
- 3. Building Agency for Social Change
- 4. Toward a Vygotskian Perspective on Transformative Agency for Social Change
- 5. Vygotsky on the Margins
- 6. Mediation in Neo-Vygotskian Terms: Rethinking School Mediated Practices from a Social Architectonic Perspective
- 7. Vygotsky, Signs and Language: Critical Observations
- 8. Identity as a Sociocultural Phenomenon: The Dialectics of Belonging, Being and Becoming
- 9. The Method in Vygotsky: Social Compensation to Achieve Higher Psychological Functions and Social Changes
- 10 Totality, Historicity, Mediation and Contradiction: Essential Categories for the Analytic Movement in Research in Education
- 11. Imagination and Emotion as the Basis of Social Transformation
- 12. The Challenges of the Reception of Vygotsky’s Theory in View of Missing Revolutionary Changes
- Instead of an Epilogue. “We Are on Fire”: Crisis as Turning Point, Vygotsky and Social Change
- Contributors
- Index