Memory Practices and Learning

Interactional, Institutional and Sociocultural Perspectives

Åsa Mäkitalo, Per Linell, Roger Säljö, Åsa Mäkitalo, Per Linell, Roger Säljö

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781681236193
  9781681236209
• eBook ISBN:
  9781681236216
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Memory and learning are seen as mental phenomena and generally studied as brain processes, for example, within various branches of psychology and neuroscience. This book represents a rather different tack, based on sociocultural theory, cultural psychology and dialogism. Authors from many different disciplines and countries study memory and learning as practices adopted by people in different interactional and institutional contexts. Studies range from detailed analyses of situated activities to broad sociohistorical studies of cultural phenomena and collective memories such as national narratives and physical symbols for commemorating events and traditions. By focusing on how people engage in remembering and learning, this book provides a necessary complement to currently popular neuroscientific approaches.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Memory Practices and Learning
• Advances in Cultural Psychology:Constructing Human Development
• BEYOND THE BRAIN TO PRACTICE
• REFERENCES
• EDITORS’ PREFACE
• 1 : INTRODUCTION
• PART I : REMEMBERING IN CONVERSATIONS
• 3 : NAMING THE OTHER
• 4 : REMEMBERING AS INSTRUCTIONAL WORK IN THE SCIENCE CLASSROOM
• 5 : “IF GREEN WAS A ANDBLUE WAS B”
• PART II : REMEMBERING, LEARNING AND COORDINATING WITH TECHNOLOGIES
• 7 : MOBILIZING DISTRIBUTED MEMORY RESOURCES IN ENGLISH PROJECT WORK
• 8 : PRACTICES OF REMEMBERING
• 9 : STRUGGLING WITHPOWERFUL CONCEPTUAL REIFICATIONS
• PART III : REMEMBERING, NARRATION, AND THE REPRODUCTION OF INSTITUTIONS AND IDENTITIES
• 11 : COLLECTIVE MEMORYIN DYNAMICS OF ETHNOPOLITICAL MOBILIZATION
• 12 : MEMORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY INA MODERN STATE
• 13 : CONNECTING DOTS
• PART IV : THE PAST AND THE PRESENT AS OPTIONS FOR THE FUTURE
• 15 : MAKING HISTORY
• 16 : CLOCKING NATUREAND SOCIETY
• 17 : EPILOGUE
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS
• SUBJECT INDEX
• Back Cover