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View article: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and its Contemporary Import: Ideas Emerging in Context and Time.
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and its Contemporary Import: Ideas Emerging in Context and Time. Open
Alexey N. Leontiev’s legacy – as part of cultural-historical activity theory – is discussed as an open-ended, dynamic, and continuously emerging system of ideas. The meaning and import of these ideas are becoming transpar…
View article: Special Issue: “advancing funds of identity theory”
Special Issue: “advancing funds of identity theory” Open
This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and...
View article: Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities
Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities Open
To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi...
View article: Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity
Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity Open
We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio...
View article: Critical Challenges in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: the Urgency of Agency
Critical Challenges in Cultural-Historical Activity Theory: the Urgency of Agency Open
The article addresses the challenge of conceptualizing agency within a non-dichotomous, dialectical approach that gives full credit to the social roots of agency and does justice to it being an achievement of togetherness possible only in …
View article: Turning Resistance into Passion for Knowledge with the Tools of Agency: Teaching-Learning about Theories of Evolution for social justice among foster youth
Turning Resistance into Passion for Knowledge with the Tools of Agency: Teaching-Learning about Theories of Evolution for social justice among foster youth Open
We discuss implementing critical-theoretical pedagogy within a collaborative transformative project in a foster care program in the U.S. to showcase the activist role of the educator in providing tools of agency for youth struggling agains…
View article: Radical-Transformative Agency: Continuities and Contrasts With Relational Agency and Implications for Education
Radical-Transformative Agency: Continuities and Contrasts With Relational Agency and Implications for Education Open
The recent scholarship on agency is mostly centered around a relational (also known as situative, contextual, distributed, and ecological) approach that draws attention to agency being situated in context and contingent on sociocultural in…
View article: Presentation – Vygotsky’s approach to disability in the context of contemporary debates and challenges: Charting the next steps (“Special Issue – Vygotsky’s Defectology”)
Presentation – Vygotsky’s approach to disability in the context of contemporary debates and challenges: Charting the next steps (“Special Issue – Vygotsky’s Defectology”) Open
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View article: Moving beyond the Relational Worldview: Exploring the Next Steps Premised on Agency and a Commitment to Social Change
Moving beyond the Relational Worldview: Exploring the Next Steps Premised on Agency and a Commitment to Social Change Open
I enthusiastically welcome the paper by Saeed Karimi-Aghdam [2016] for many reasons, but especially because it makes an important contribution to and serves to invigorate debates about theoretical and, more broadly, philosophical underpinn…