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Beyond the Brain: An Agentive Activity Perspective on Mind, Development, and Learning (Bold Visions in Educational Research) by Igor M. Arievitch (auth.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 such a construction is identified as the centuries-old contemplative fallacy that leads to entrenched dualisms and shackles major theoretical frameworks. The alternative agentive activity perspective overcomes this fallacy by advancing the core principles of the cultural-historical activity theory. This innovative perspective charts a consistently non-mentalist and non-individualist view of psychological processes without discarding the individual mind. A vast body of research and theories, from Piaget and Dewey to sociocultural and embodied cognition approaches are critically engaged, with a special focus on Piotr Galperin’s contribution. The notion of the embodied agent’s object-directed activity serves as a pivotal point for re-conceptualizing the mind and its role in behavior. In a radical departure from both the traditional mentalist and biologically reductionist frameworks, psycholo

Who reads Beyond the Brain: An Agentive Activity Perspective on Mind, Development, and Learning (Bold Visions in Educational Research)?

Author

Igor M. Arievitch (auth.)

Publisher

SensePublishers : Imprint : SensePublishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9789463511025

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Education, Psychology, Philosophy