Beth Ferholt
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Correction: Lecusay et al. Caring about and with Imaginary Characters: Early Childhood Playworlds as Sites for Social Sustainability. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5533
Correction: Lecusay et al. Caring about and with Imaginary Characters: Early Childhood Playworlds as Sites for Social Sustainability. Sustainability 2022, 14, 5533 Open
The authors would like to make the following corrections about the published paper [...]
View article: Cultural historical research in support of inclusive classrooms:
Cultural historical research in support of inclusive classrooms: Open
This article showcases the potential of dialogue within cultural historical research (CHR) to enhance our understanding of and advocacy for inclusivity in schools. It illustrates how the authors, each rooted in distinct subfields – cultura…
View article: Caring about and with Imaginary Characters: Early Childhood Playworlds as Sites for Social Sustainability
Caring about and with Imaginary Characters: Early Childhood Playworlds as Sites for Social Sustainability Open
We investigate the concept of care in adult-child joint play through two cases that illustrate ways in which the development of care relations among researchers, pedagogues, and children—and the imaginary characters they create through the…
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: Playworlds as Ways of Being, A Chorus of Voices: Why are Playworlds Worth Creating?
Playworlds as Ways of Being, A Chorus of Voices: Why are Playworlds Worth Creating? Open
This paper discusses the playworlds of the Playworld of Creative Research (PWCR) research group. Play¬worlds are created from a relatively new form of play that can be described as a combination of adult forms of creative imagination (art,…
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: Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells
Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells Open
In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou...
View article: Humanity’s leading activity: survival, of the humanity of our species
Humanity’s leading activity: survival, of the humanity of our species Open
In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th...
View article: Responding to LCHC’s polyphonic autobiography: Studying rocks in a landslide and the creation of new, more humane forms of LCHC’s own activity
Responding to LCHC’s polyphonic autobiography: Studying rocks in a landslide and the creation of new, more humane forms of LCHC’s own activity Open
Doing social science … is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a landslide. – Roy D’Andrade (as cited in Cole, 1995, p. 190) The acid test of the theory is its success in guiding the constru...
View article: Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead
Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead Open
We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across ...
View article: Scholarly work and/as passion
Scholarly work and/as passion Open
With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in...
View article: Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of <i>Mind, Culture, and Activity</i>
Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of <i>Mind, Culture, and Activity</i> Open
As the editorial team of Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA), we write with a sense of urgency in regenerating our commitment to our collective history while strengthening our efforts to welcome new ...
View article: Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation
Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation Open
This issue comprises five articles and two book reviews. One theme in the articles is social change and transformation in or through activity, which seems to be grounded in conceptions of dialectic...
View article: Identity, Knowledge, Power, and Educational Reform
Identity, Knowledge, Power, and Educational Reform Open
This, the second issue of 2018, presents five original articles, followed by three book reviews. Although all of these are independent works, two main threads appear pervasive across several of the...
View article: Growing Forward: Imagining the Year Ahead
Growing Forward: Imagining the Year Ahead Open
We begin the new year building from the past, reflecting on a shared present, and imagining possible futures. As we do so, we want to acknowledge changes as they occur, thanking colleagues for thei...
View article: Returning to Meaning Making as Essential for Praxis
Returning to Meaning Making as Essential for Praxis Open
The threads that draw these articles together are formed by questions of meaning making, not simply for research participants, but for researchers as well. Whether attempting to document the meanin...
View article: Early Childhood<i>Perezhivaniya</i>
Early Childhood<i>Perezhivaniya</i> Open
Our overarching response to this collection of articles on perezhivanie is that the great range of topics across the articles makes necessary more specific conference discussions and papers: those ...