Rethinking Cultural-Historical Theory A Dialectical Perspective to Vygotsky /

• Main Author: Dafermos, Manolis (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research, 4
• Subjects: Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Education-Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Developmental psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Developmental Psychology.

This book is an exploration of science in the making. It offers readers the opportunity to critically reflect on the process of development of Vygotsky's research program from the perspective of dialectics, focusing on the dramatic process of building and rebuilding cultural historical theory....

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 The historical and scientific background to the genesis of cultural-historical theory
• 3 A preliminary sketch of Vygotsky's theory
• 4 Exploring the philosophical underpinnings of cultural historical theory
• 5 The prehistory of cultural-historical theory
• 6 The primary appearance of cultural historical psychology
• 7 The formation of cultural-historical theory
• 8 Creativity in science in the case of Vygotsky.