Mind, Culture, and Activity: an international journal. News Undergrad awarded Student Veteran of the Year Communication undergraduate student, Richard Gilbert, honored as student veteran with the 14th annual Veteran of the Year presented by the UC San Diego Veterans Association along with the dedication of the campus’s new Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC). ICA Awards Faculty Member and Alumna Faculty member Dan Hallin has won the Edwin C. Books from Department Faculty Congratulations! Alumna Stephanie (Sam) Martin offered a position as an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Methodist University. Congratulations to Thomas Conner, who was awarded a student research fellowship in conjunction with Science for the People: The 1970s and Today, a conference to be held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in April 2014. Congratulations to Andy Rice on the successful defense of his dissertation, Indexical Embodiments: Sensory Cinema and/as Historical Reenactment.
Soviet Psychology: Alexander Luria. “There is no hope of finding the sources of free action in the lofty realms of the mind or in the depths of the brain. The idealist approach of the phenomenologists is as hopeless as the positive approach of the naturalists. To discover the sources of free action it is necessary to go outside the limits of the organism, not into the intimate sphere of the mind, but into the objective forms of social life; it is necessary to seek the sources of human consciousness and freedom in the social history of humanity. To find the soul it is necessary to lose it". A.R Luria Biography: By Michael Cole: A brief overview of Luria's life and work Photo Archive Works: The Development of Writing in the Child, 1929 (5Mb pdf). Ape, Primitive Man, and Child: Essays in the History of Behaviour, c. 1930Chapter 3: The Child and his Behavior. The Nature of Human Conflicts, 1932 (19Mb PDF). Psychopathological Research in the U.S.S.R., 1957 The Making of Mind, A Personal Account of Soviet Psychology, publ. 1979. 1.
Soviet Psychology: A.N. Leont'ev. University of Helsinki - Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research. In his Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx (1845) pointedly characterized the two pitfalls of social theory: "The chief defect of all previous materialism ... is that the thing, reality, sensuousness, is conceived only in the form of the object or of contemplation, but not as sensuous human activity, practice, not subjectively. " And on the other hand: "Hence in opposition to materialism the active side was developed abstractly by idealism, which of course does not know real sensuous activity as such. " The cultural-historical theory of activity was initiated a group of revolutionary Russian psychologists in the 1920s and 1930s, determined to turn the spirit of the Feuerbach theses into a new approach to understanding and transforming human life.
The basic concept of the approach was formulated by Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934), the founder of the school. According to Vygotsky, psychology in the 1920s was dominated by two unsatisfactory orientations, psychoanalysis and behaviorism. Il'enkov, E. A CONCEPT OF EDUCATIONAL. News Undergrad awarded Student Veteran of the Year Communication undergraduate student, Richard Gilbert, honored as student veteran with the 14th annual Veteran of the Year presented by the UC San Diego Veterans Association along with the dedication of the campus’s new Student Veterans Resource Center (SVRC). ICA Awards Faculty Member and Alumna Faculty member Dan Hallin has won the Edwin C. Baker Award for research on media, markets and democracy, which is given by the Philisophy, Theory and Critique and the Media Law and Policy Divisions of the ICA.
Books from Department Faculty Congratulations! Alumna Stephanie (Sam) Martin offered a position as an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Southern Methodist University. Congratulations to Thomas Conner, who was awarded a student research fellowship in conjunction with Science for the People: The 1970s and Today, a conference to be held at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in April 2014.
Learning by Expanding. Holistic Educator: CHAT – Cultural Historical Activity Theory.