The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education
Cambridge University Press, 12/1/2016
EAN 9780521865586, ISBN10: 0521865581
Hardcover, 434 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
The 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.
Introduction
setting the stage
the paradox of continuity versus change
Part I
1. Charting the agenda
from adaptation to transformation
2. Situating theory
the charges and challenges of theorizing activism
Part II
3. Vygotsky's project
methodology as the philosophy of method
4. Vygotsky's project
relational ontology
5. Vygotsky's project
from relational ontology to transformative worldview
Part III
6. Transformative activist stance
ontology
7. Transformative activist stance
agency
8. Transformative activist stance
encountering the future through commitment to change
Part IV
9. The mind that matters
10. Illustration
memory and anticipation of the future
11. Implications for education
teaching-learning and development as activist projects
Concluding remarks
toward democracy and pedagogy of daring
Bibliography
Appendices.