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The Cambridge Handbook of Cultural-Historical Psychology

Michel Ferrari editor René van der Veer editor Anton Yasnitsky editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Sep '14

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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.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.

'What a wide-ranging view of the comprehensive subject of mind-culture-neurology! It serves a real purpose both pedagogically and in the scholarly sense.' Jerome Bruner, Professor Emeritus, New York University
'Anyone interested in the ideas of Vygotsky and his legacies will find this book a rich source of information and inspiration.' Mike Cole, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego
'Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was among the most seminal psychologists of the twentieth century. This excellent volume is a fitting tribute to Vygotsky and a testimony to the fact that his theory of 'cultural-historical psychology' is alive and well and continues to influence many strands of psychology worldwide.' Elkhonon Goldberg, author of The Executive Brain, The Wisdom Paradox, and The New Executive Brain

ISBN: 9780521762694

Dimensions: 254mm x 178mm x 32mm

Weight: 1100g

540 pages