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.

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

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.

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

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.

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This book brings a breath of fresh air into the otherwise overly unimaginative social discourse on ‘social identity’ that reigns in contemporary anthropology and psychology. In that area of scientific discourse, everyday ideological talk seems to hinder researchers’ imagination. Somehow it is taken for granted that people ‘have identities’ and that such possessions (or ‘good identities’—of their gender, their nation or their workplace) are of positive value. Surely, this is important for the social institutions that use persons’ identities as bases for bonding persons to their social goals, and thus proliferate the myth of the need (for persons) to have their identities. Yet these valuable possessions seem ephemeral—the ‘identities’ that are discussed cannot easily be specified. Hence the need to transcend the all too usual—and seemingly ‘correct’—ways of looking at the

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