Cultural-Historical and Critical Psychology: Common ground, divergences, and future pathways (2020) Editors: Marilyn Fleer, Fernando Gonzalez Rey, and Peter E. Jones More information: Click this link
About: 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.
Revisiting Vygotsky for Social Change: Bringing Together Theory and Practice (2020)
Editors: Adolfo Tanzi Neto, Fernanda Liberali, and Manolis Dafermos
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About: Contemporary thinkers and researchers from different parts of the world involved in achieving human development employ Vygotsky’s theory in order to deal with new social challenges arising in a global but deeply divided world (Santos, 2000; Souza e Santos, 2008; Martín-Baró, 1998). The chapters of this book shed light onto Vygotsky’s initial principles adding critical and social perspectives as a way of expanding his legacy to global contemporary needs such as a critical reflection from the perspective of social change, social dynamics and human development, ethical-political situations of action power, dialectic relationship of the human being with society, contradictions in an individual’s dramatic life events and awareness of the social environment to actively change the existing forms of life.
Cultural Praxis - "Cultural Praxis is a forum for scholars and practitioners interested in understanding and being creative about how studying the intersection between human cultures and human experience can provide insights for praxis and open opportunities for social change and development. Cultural Praxis publishes original works in formats other than scientific articles, including blog entries on past, current, and future matters, book reviews, teaching and activist resources, and artistic works. Cultural Praxis also publishes supplemental material to Mind, Culture and Activity journal." To visit Cultural Praxis, please click the following link: Link
Coffee Hour with Mike Cole - Coffee Hours are intended to create intergenerational discussions focused on central concepts of a critical, bio/social, cultural/historical approach to human development. Each 1.5 hour session is dedicated to a central text that the author is invited to discuss with Dr. Mike Cole and those in attendance. Attendees are asked to contribute a question provoked by the text a few days before teh session. The questions are both a means of facilitating and promoting inclusive and mutually educational discourse and the author's task in gauging the audience's concerns. To learn more about Coffee Hours, visit the Cultural Praxis website here.