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Beyond the brain : an agentive activity perspective on mind, development, and learning /
The book outlines a fundamental alternative to the rising wave of aggressive biological reductionism and brainism in contemporary psychology and education. It offers steps to achieving a daunting and elusive goal: constructing a coherently non-reductionist account of the mind. The main obstacle to s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rotterdam, The Netherlands :
SensePublishers,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Bold visions in educational research ;
v. 57. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; THE GOALS AND STARTING POINTS OF THE BOOK; THE STRUCTURE AND MAIN TOPICS OF THE BOOK; CHAPTER 2: THE MIND IS NOT IN THE BRAIN; A NEW WAVE OF BRAINISM IN PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION; RECENT CRITICISM OF BRAINISM; SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS AGAINST BRAINISM AND "MINDLESS NEUROSCIENCE"; CHAPTER 3: THE MIND IS THE FORM OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S ACTIVITY: The Emergence of the Active Agent; HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF RESEARCH ON NON-AUTOMATICITY; James's Concept of the "Efficacity of Consciousness"; Dewey's Notion of Coordination of Self-Guided Activity.
- AN ACTIVITY-BASED APPROACH TO MINDBackground of Galperin's Work; The Concept of Orienting Activity; The New Type of Causality; The Mind is the Embodied Agent's Activity, Not the Brain Functioning; COMPARISON TO OTHER RECENT ATTEMPTS TO INTRODUCE AN AGENTIVE APPROACH TO MIND; NOTES; CHAPTER 4: THE DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORY OF CULTURAL MEDIATION (I): From Joint Activity to Semiotic Mediation; APPROACHES TO SEMIOTIC MEDIATION; VYGOTSKY ON SEMIOTIC MEDIATION; TAKING A BROADER VIEW ON MEDIATION: PRE-HISTORY OF SEMIOTIC MEDIATION.
- FROM EARLIER FORMS OF CULTURAL MEDIATION TO SEMIOTIC MEDIATION: THE "MAGIC OF SIGNS"NOTES; CHAPTER 5: THE DEVELOPMENTAL TRAJECTORY OF CULTURAL MEDIATION (II): From Semiotically Mediated Activity to Psychological Process; THE INTERNALIZATION CONTROVERSY; AN ACTIVITY-BASED APPROACH TO INTERNALIZATION; Focusing on External Activity; Mental Processes as Activities; Mental Processes Are the Agent's External Actions; DEMYSTIFYING THE PROCESS OF MEDIATION BY COGNITIVE TOOLS; Reframing the Mediation Research; Cognitive Tools Are Directed toward External Objects, Not "Inward."
- BROADENING THE NON-MENTALIST FRAMEWORKNeo-Piagetian Theorizing of Mental Processes and Internalization; The Human Agent: Adapting Organism or Inherently Social Actor?; "Internal" Processes as Acting with Social Meanings; SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; NOTES; CHAPTER 6: THE QUALITY OF COGNITIVE TOOLS AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIND; DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: THE RELEVANCE OF CULTURALLY EVOLVED COGNITIVE TOOLS; THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; Types of Learning; Types of Learning and Cognitive Development; IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL STUDIES; DEVELOPMENTAL TEACHING AND LEARNING.
- An Illustration: Bloom's Taxonomy from the DTL PerspectiveNOTES; CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION: Overcoming the Contemplative Fallacy by Adopting the Agentive Activity Perspective; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.