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Jaan Valsiner

Bio: Jaan Valsiner is an academic researcher from Aalborg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural psychology & Dialogical self. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 384 publications receiving 12659 citations. Previous affiliations of Jaan Valsiner include University of Luxembourg & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.


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TL;DR: The need of theory construction, and development of new methodology that honors the qualitative, dynamic, and holistic nature of cultural phenomena has been discussed in this article, and the need of new theory construction and new methodology has also been discussed.
Abstract: Culture and Psychology has by now been around for two decades. As its Editor, I like to look forward, rather than backward, to consider what might be necessary for further advancement of the area. While the discourses in the different subdomains of cultural psychologies1 have stabilized over the two decades, elaborations of relevant cultural phenomena have been well established, and the field continues in its deeply international and transdisciplinary ways—there are still serious obstacles on its way of further advancement. I would outline two—the need of theory construction, and development of new methodology that honors the qualitative, dynamic, and holistic nature of cultural phenomena.

41 citations

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jun 2015
TL;DR: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962 introduced the idea of revolutionary paradigm shifts as mentioned in this paper, which is the basis for the present paper, and is also the basis of our work.
Abstract: Against the prevailing view that progress in science is characterized by the progressive accumulation of knowledge, Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962 introduced the idea of revolutionary paradigm shifts. For Kuhn, everyday science is normal science in which scientists are engaged in problem solving activities set in the context of a widely accepted paradigm that constitutes a broad acceptance of a fundamental theoretical framework, an agreement on researchable phenomena and on the appropriate methodology. But, on occasions normal science throws up vexing issues and anomalous results. In response, some scientists carry on regardless, while others begin to lose confidence in the paradigm and look to other options, namely rival paradigms. As more and more scientists switch allegiance to the rival paradigm, the revolution gathers pace, supported by the indoctrination of students through lectures, academic papers and textbooks. In response to critics, including Lakatos who suggested that his depiction reduced scientific progress to mob psychology, Kuhn offered a set of criteria that contributed to the apparent ‘gestalt switch’ from the old to the new paradigm. But that is another story, as indeed is Kuhn’s claim that the social sciences are pre-paradigmatic – in other words, that the only consensus is that there is no consensus.

41 citations

01 Jan 2010
TL;DR: The notion of pervasive time experience was introduced by Bergson as discussed by the authors, who argued that feeling relaxed might correspond to an extension of space feeling, and that distress correspond to convergence of time, which corresponds to the suffering of terminally ill patients.
Abstract: Everyone agrees that happy times of the pleasurable kind seem to pass faster than stressful times. When we are in a deep sleep and then wake up, we feel the time as if it had been a moment. We fall asleep instantly─and eight hours later when we wake up, it seems to us as if just a short time has passed. On the other hand, an insomniac─ a person who is continuously struggling with habitual sleeplessness─ suffers what feels like a long time every night before the transition to sleep. Time sometimes “flies” and at other times “drags”─as all of us know. There is a deeply subjective flow involved in living-within-time. Imagine that you decided─or were asked to-do five-hundred push-ups. This is a difficult experience for nearly everyone. You start and then cannot count anymore. You feel that this simple torture is never-ending. It is another kind of pervasive time experience. You cannot go back to the state you were before you embarked on the path to the five-hundred push-ups. You function in pervasive and irreversible time. This corresponds to the suffering of terminally ill patients. Though pleasurable and distressful experiences are both pervasive, feeling relaxed might correspond to an extension of space feeling. In fact, Bergson (1907), in his work “L'évolution, correlate détente (i.e. relaxation) to extension, or créatrice.” Therefore, distress might correspond to convergence of time. According to Bergson, time is persistent─it Study Notes Time in Life and Life in Time: Between Experiencing and Accounting

39 citations


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01 Dec 2014
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.
Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

5,768 citations

01 Jan 1964
TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of a collective unconscious was introduced as a theory of remembering in social psychology, and a study of remembering as a study in Social Psychology was carried out.
Abstract: Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

5,690 citations

Book
01 Dec 1996
TL;DR: Clark as mentioned in this paper argues that the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, and argues that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity.
Abstract: From the Publisher: The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.

3,745 citations

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01 Jun 1959

3,442 citations

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3,181 citations