Understanding Educational Psychology A Late Vygotskian, Spinozist Approach /

• Main Authors: Roth, Wolff-Michael (Author), Jornet, Alfredo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Cultural Psychology of Education, 3
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Educational psychology.; Education > Psychology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Religion and culture.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Sociology of Culture.; Sociology of Education.

This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there i...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• 1. Vygotsky, Spinoza, and Cultural Psychology of Education
• PART I: FOUNDATIONS
• Introduction
• Biology | Culture
• Communicating | Thinking
• Intrasubjectivity | Intersubjectivity
• Primacy of the Social and Sociogenetic Method
• Learning | Development
• PART II: CASE STUDIES
• Introduction
• The Social Nature of Reading
• Intention—A Product of Joint Social Work
• Culturing Conceptions
• Natural History of the Sign
• Genesis of the Zone of Proximal Development
• PART III: IMPLICATIONS
• Introduction
• The Thinking Body
• “The Way to Freedom” in/for Education
• Appendix
• Index. .