{"product_id":"the-transformative-mind-expanding-vygotskys-approach-to-development-and-education-paperback-9781108712705","title":"The Transformative Mind; Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108712705","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Transformative Mind\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eExpanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book's innovative transformative stance revives the critical-activist gist of Vygotsky's project to move beyond theoretical-ideological canons in addressing the crisis of inequality.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnna Stetsenko (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108712705, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 14 March 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e433 pages, 1 table\u003cbr\u003e23 x 15.3 x 2.7 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe book suggests a transition from a relational worldview premised on the socio-political ethos of adaptation towards a transformative worldview premised on the ethos of solidarity and equality. Expansively developing Vygotsky's revolutionary project, the Transformative Activist Stance integrates insights from a vast array of critical and sociocultural theories and pedagogies and moves beyond their impasses to address the crisis of inequality. This captures the dynamics of social transformation and agency in moving beyond theoretical and political canons of the status quo. The focus is on the nexus of people co-creating history and society while being interactively created by their own transformative agency. Revealing development and mind as agentive contributions to the 'world-in-the-making' from an activist stance guided by a sought-after future, this approach culminates in implications for research with transformative agendas and a pedagogy of daring. Along the way, many key theories of mind, development and education are challenged and radically reworked.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: setting the stage: the paradox of continuity versus change\u003cbr\u003e Part I: 1. Charting the agenda: from adaptation to transformation\u003cbr\u003e 2. Situating theory: the charges and challenges of theorizing activism\u003cbr\u003e Part II: 3. Vygotsky's project: methodology as the philosophy of method\u003cbr\u003e 4. Vygotsky's project: relational ontology\u003cbr\u003e 5. Vygotsky's project: from relational ontology to transformative worldview\u003cbr\u003e Part III: 6. Transformative activist stance: ontology\u003cbr\u003e 7. Transformative activist stance: agency\u003cbr\u003e 8. Transformative activist stance: encountering the future through commitment to change\u003cbr\u003e Part IV: 9. The mind that matters\u003cbr\u003e 10. Illustration: memory and anticipation of the future\u003cbr\u003e 11. Implications for education: teaching-learning and development as activist projects\u003cbr\u003e Concluding remarks: toward democracy and pedagogy of daring\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendices.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Teaching skills \u0026amp; techniques [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Teaching skills \u0026amp; techniques\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Teaching%20skills%20\u0026amp;%20techniques%20%5BJNT%5D%22\"\u003eJNT\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy \u0026amp; theory of education [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy \u0026amp; theory of education\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20of%20education%20%5BJNA%5D%22\"\u003eJNA\u003c\/a\u003e], Education [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Education\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Education%20%5BJN%5D%22\"\u003eJN\u003c\/a\u003e], Psychology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Psychology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Psychology%20%5BJM%5D%22\"\u003eJM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46001660985624,"sku":"9781108712705","price":34.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521865586_3b4c2caa-2dd4-402d-a95f-b82e9c46ecc7.jpg?v=1696713883","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-transformative-mind-expanding-vygotskys-approach-to-development-and-education-paperback-9781108712705","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}