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.

Comprar Understanding Vygotsky: A Quest for Synthesis | Rene Van der Veer | 9780631189558 | Wiley

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Buggers in the Field: Researchers as Tricksters in the Universe of Social Sciences

Abstract: This collection of essays by Klaus-Peter Köpping is a playful treatise on a basic issue—knowledge construction in anthropology. It is filled with humor, irony, sarcasm and many other ways of touching upon the reality of how knowledge is created in-between the researcher, the ‘native’ and ‘the society’. The latter of course should occur in the plural as the anthropologist’s efforts to make sense relate to two societies (at least). The questions raised about anthropology’s ambivalent relations with its subject matter are similar to those in other social sciences, and hence need elaboration. The picture that emerges from Köpping’s essays about anthropology’s honored rituals of ‘fieldwork’ is multi-sided. It entails the anthropologist’s diligence—as well as boredom and frustration. The well-documented negative comments about the people the anthropologist studied (made by Malinowski in his private writings) have tortured anthropology’s self-image of benevolence and acceptance of ‘primitive societies’. Anthropologists are not just positive heroes who diligently work ‘in the field’ to bring the understanding of unknown

Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental 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.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

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.

Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

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.