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El instrumento y el signo en el desarrollo del niño
Edited by Pablo del Río & Amelia Álvarez
Price: 15€
Language: Spanish
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This short and brilliant work is an excellent synthesis of vygostkian thought on mediation and higher psychological functions as mediated.
La tragedia de Hamlet / Psicología del Arte
Edited by Amelia Álvarez & Pablo del Río
Price: 30€
Language: Spanish
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This books presents the first two major works of Lev S. Vygotsky, in which his theory of the dramatic structure of mind is advanced, and in which he claims art's central role in the formation of emotions and meaning-making processes.
Actividad verbal, textos y discursos. Por un interaccionismo socio-discursivo
Jean-Paul Bronckart
Price: 18€
Language: Spanish
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This work synthesizes the author’s theoretical approach, based on the theoretical principles of socio-discoursive interactionism and on the research work carried with his colleagues at Geneva University using as sample 120 real textual productions.
El yo social. La psicología de Henri Wallon
René Zazzo
Price: 15€
Language: Spanish
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La obra de Henri Wallon constituye uno de los pilares del pensamiento sociogenético europeo en psicología. René Zazzo, otro gran psicólogo del desarrollo, realizó en este libro una brillante recuperación de las ideas más cruciales de su maestro tejiendo una biografía científica que es un homenaje a la vez que un verdadero y riguroso tratado de psicología.
Pigmalión. Informe sobre el impacto de la televisión en la infancia
Pablo del Río, Amelia Álvarez & Miguel del Río
Price: 27€
Language: Spanish
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This work presents an overview of the influence of television on children based on a review of three decades of empirical research on its effects on child development.
Comparative study of human cultural development
Jaan Valsiner
Price: 22€
Language: English
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This book is devoted to look at the role of comparative research orientation in the social sciences- and in psychology in particular as it is of relevance for basic knowledge.
The Religious Phenomenon: An Inter-disciplinary Approach
Donizete Rodrigues & Pablo del Río (Eds.)
Price: 15€
Language: English
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"The Religious Phenomenon" considers, from history, sociology, anthropology and psychology, the phenomenon of the unexpected revitalisation of religiousness after the generalised secularisation and rationalisation in the modern age. This book analyses the relationships between the old religions and the vigour of new religious movements, which are often closely linked to widespread transformations of the social environment and to the mass media.
Los desarrollos de la Psicología Social en España
Darío Páez & Sabino Ayestarán (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: Spanish
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The studies presented in this volume are contributions from social psychologists about the past of their discipline in Spain and its current situation.
La mente sociocultural. Aproximaciones teóricas y aplicadas
James V. Wertsch, Pablo del Río & Amelia Álvarez (Eds.)
Price: 19€
Language: Spanish
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The contributors to this volume, some of the most representative researchers in cultural historical psychology, coming from a wide array of scientific disciplines, face the challenge of understanding the mechanisms that underlie the relationship between psyche (or mind) and culture.
Teaching, learning and classroom discourse. Approaches to the study of educational discourse
César Coll & Derek Edwards (Eds.)
Price: 19€
Language: English, French
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All the studies in this volume share the basic idea that the analysis of educational discourse, and more specifically the analysis of the speech produced by teachers and learners in the course of teaching and learning activities, is essential to identifying the meanings that circulate and are negotiated in the classroom.
Enseñanza, aprendizaje y discurso en el aula. Aproximaciones al estudio del discurso educacional
César Coll & Derek Edwards (Eds.)
Price: 19€
Language: Spanish
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All the studies in this volume share the basic idea that the analysis of educational discourse, and more specifically the analysis of the speech produced by teachers and learners in the course of teaching and learning activities, is essential to identifying the meanings that circulate and are negotiated in the classroom.
La teoría sociocultural y la psicología social actual
Darío Páez & Amalio Blanco (Eds.)
Price: 19€
Language: Spanish
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This book includes contributions from leading researchers, who consider from a modern perspective the assumptions and models of Vygotski’s theory and the sociocultural approach in terms of their implications for social psychological processes.
La socialización en la escuela y la integración de las minorías. Perspectivas etnográficas en el análisis de la educación de los 90
Isabel Martínez & Ana Vásquez-Bronfman (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: Spanish
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This work constitutes an innovative approach to the problem of educational research, with the various authors situating themselves as researchers that consider research as a process of co-construction of various subjectivities, among which is that of the researcher him/herself.
Explorations in Sociocultural Studies vol. 4: Education as Cultural Construction
Amelia Álvarez & Pablo del Río (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: English, with extended summary in Spanish; Spanish with extended summary in English
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This volume brings together diverse contributions on culture and education undertaken on the basis of the sociocultural approach.
Explorations in Sociocultural Studies vol. 3: Teaching, Learning and Interaction
Neil Mercer & César Coll (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: English, with extended summary in Spanish
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The works included in this volume offer a comprehensive approach to the updating of theories, methodological innovation and empirical application in relation to the most central problems in the educational process, in three sections.
Explorations in Socio-Cultural Studies, vol. 2: Literacy and Other Forms of Mediated Action
James V. Wertsch & Juan Daniel Ramírez (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: English, with extended summary in Spanish
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This volume presents a rich selection of empirical and theoretical research covering a wide range of contextualised and mediated psychological and cultural processes, grouped in three sections: the analysis of psychological processes; social interaction and communication; and the reading and writing process and the social practices linked to it.
Explorations in Sociocultural Studies vol 1: Historical and Theoretical Discourse
Alberto Rosa & Jaan Valsiner (Eds.)
Price: 18€
Language: English, with extended summary in Spanish; Spanish with extended summary in English
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This work deals with the classic themes that have shaped the sociocultural perspective throughout its history. Problems such as phylogeny, historico-genesis and culturo-genesis, interiorisation, culture and learning are discussed in the corresponding sections in relation to the contributions of classic authors, the theoretical and methodological challenges faced from this perspective, or the use of history as methodology, including the construction of the actual narratives of theories in the social sciences, among them those of psychology.