Overview
- Presents a critical dialogue on the standpoints and priorities in cultural-historical and critical psychology
- Identifies new insights and avenues for innovation by examining common ground and divergences in both psychological trends
- Encourages new links between the cultural-historical and critical psychological traditions
Part of the book series: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research (PCHR, volume 8)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
Keywords
- cultural-historical psychological theorising
- critical psychological theorising
- dialogue between cultural-historial and critical perspective
- L.S. Vygotsky
- Marxist-Vygotskyan
- Ludwig Feuerbach
- historical-methdological study
- cultural-historical theory and contemporary perceptions
- critical psychology and historical psychology
About this book
This book opens up a critical dialogue within and across the theoretical traditions of critical psychology and cultural-historical psychology. It explores and addresses fundamental issues and problems within both traditions, with a view to identifying new avenues for productive discussion and cooperation between these two important movements in contemporary psychology. Accordingly, the book gathers contributions from a range of internationally respected researchers from both fields who have demonstrated a willingness to look critically, and self-critically, at their theoretical allegiances and trajectories. This book provides readers with the opportunity to both appreciate and reflect on fundamental differences of perspective across the ‘cultural-historical’/’critical’ psychology divide and, thereby, to consider and debate key issues facing the discipline of psychology more generally.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Fernando Luís González Rey held the posts of Professor in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences, University Centre of Brasília, Brazil, and senior Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Brasília. He obtained his Ph.D at the Institute of General and Pedagogic Psychology of Moscow and the degree of Doctor in Science from the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. At the University of Havana, he was Professor in the Faculty of Psychology (1973-1999), Dean of this Faculty (1987-1991) and Vice Rector (1991-1995). Awarded the Inter-American Prize of Psychology in 1991, his research interests focused on the problem of subjectivity within education and psychology from a cultural-historical perspective.
Peter E. Jones is Reader in Language and Communication in the Department of Humanities, Sheffield Hallam University. His research interests include general linguistics, communication theory and the philosophy of language, Marxism and the cultural-historical and activity theory traditions. He is currently preparing a book on the linguistic infrastructure of Vygotsky’s psychology. Other current projects focus on the pathologisation of nonstandard linguistic varieties in educational contexts, the communicational dimensions of cooperative activity, and the inter-dependence between perspectives on communication and radical social theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cultural-Historical and Critical Psychology
Book Subtitle: Common Ground, Divergences and Future Pathways
Editors: Marilyn Fleer, Fernando González Rey, Peter E. Jones
Series Title: Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2209-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2208-6Published: 12 June 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-2211-6Published: 12 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-2209-3Published: 11 June 2020
Series ISSN: 2520-1530
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1549
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 191
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Educational Philosophy, Developmental Psychology, Critical Psychology, Cross Cultural Psychology