The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology [Paperback]

The first handbook to present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain and culture.Written by major international experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology, this is the first handbook to focus on the inseparable unity of the mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it.Written by major international experts in the field of cultural-historical psychology, this is the first handbook to focus on the inseparable unity of the mind, brain and culture, and the ways to understand it.The field of cultural-historical psychology originated in the work of Lev Vygotsky and the Vygotsky Circle in the Soviet Union more than eighty years ago, and has now established a powerful research tradition in Russia and the West. The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology is the first volume to systematically present cultural-historical psychology as an integrative/holistic developmental science of mind, brain, and culture. Its main focus is the inseparable unity of the historically evolving human mind, brain, and culture, and the ways to understand it. The contributors are major international experts in the field, and include authors of major works on Lev Vygotsky, direct collaborators and associates of Alexander Luria, and renowned neurologist Oliver Sacks. The Handbook will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of psychology, education, humanities and neuroscience.Introduction: what is this book and what is it about? Anton Yasnitsky and Ren? van der Veer; Part I. Theory: 1. Introducing Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology Ronald Miller; 2. Vygotsky's idea of psychological tools Janette Friedrich; 3. The problem of consciousness in Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychology Ekaterina Zavershneva; Part II. Method: 4. Methodology of cultural-historical psychology Aaro Toomela; 5. Dynamic assessment in search of its identity Alex Kozulin; 6. Encountering the border: Vygotsky's zona bllÃH