Vygotsky at Work and Play 1st Edition by Lois Holzman ISBN 0415422949 9780415422949

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ISBN 10: 0415422949 
ISBN 13: 9780415422949
Author: Lois Holzman

Vygotsky at Work and Play relates the discoveries and insights of Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky to ordinary people and their communities. The author―working with her intellectual partner Fred Newman―has advanced a unique performance-based methodology of development and learning that draws upon a fresh and in some ways unconventional reading of Vygotsky. In this book, Holzman shows this methodology at work in key learning environments: psychotherapy, classrooms, out-of-school youth programs, and the workplace.

The book vividly describes Vygotskian-inspired programs involving thousands of people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds, ages and occupations. Interwoven in each chapter are discussions of Vygotsky’s understandings of play, speaking, thinking, the zone of proximal development, the individual and the group. Holzman brings practice and theory together to provide a way forward for those who wish to liberate human development and learning from the confines of the social scientific paradigm, the institutional location of educational and psychological research, and the practices that derive from them.

Vygotsky at Work and Play presents a challenge to the underlying distinctions and boundaries of psychology, most significantly to the presumption of a cognitive-emotive divide, the notion of fixed identity, the privileging of the individual over the group, and the instrumental nature of play and performance.

The book is essential reading for researchers and professionals in educational and developmental psychology, psychotherapy, cultural historical activity, social science, performance studies and education.

Vygotsky at Work and Play 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Theoretical Foundations: Re-reading Vygotsky

• Chapter 1: Activity Theory and the Development of Consciousness
  • Vygotsky’s historical-cultural theory of human development
  • The concept of activity and its role in learning
  • Consciousness as a social product
• Chapter 2: The Zone of Proximal Development: More Than Just Scaffolding
  • Revisiting the ZPD: a developmental and revolutionary concept
  • The ZPD as a space for social experimentation and performance
  • Beyond individualistic interpretations of the ZPD
• Chapter 3: Play as a Leading Activity of Development
  • Vygotsky’s understanding of play
  • The role of imagination and rules in play
  • Play as a form of social practice and development

Part II: Vygotsky in Practice: Learning, Development, and Performance

• Chapter 4: Re-imagining Education: Learning as Social Construction
  • Vygotsky’s critique of traditional schooling
  • Creating developmental learning environments
  • The social nature of teaching and learning
• Chapter 5: Performing the Self: A Vygotskian Approach to Therapy and Counseling
  • Beyond individual pathology: a social-therapeutic perspective
  • The role of performance and improvisation in therapy
  • Creating new developmental possibilities in therapeutic settings
• Chapter 6: Community and Development: Social Practice as Transformation
  • Vygotsky’s relevance for community-based initiatives
  • Building developmental communities
  • The role of collective activity in social change

Part III: Challenges and New Directions

• Chapter 7: Critiques and Expansions of Vygotsky’s Work
  • Addressing common misunderstandings of Vygotsky
  • Engaging with contemporary Vygotskian scholarship
  • Future directions for Vygotskian theory and practice
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: Continual Development and the Open-Endedness of Human Life
  • Summarizing key themes
  • The ongoing relevance of Vygotsky for the 21st century
  • A call to action for social-cultural practitioners

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