Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and its Contemporary Import: Ideas Emerging in Context and Time.
<p>Alexey N. Leontiev’s legacy – as part of cultural-historical activity theory – is discussed as an open-ended, dynamic, and <em>continuously emerging</em> system of ideas. The meaning and import of these ideas are becoming transparent in t...
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<p>Alexey N. Leontiev’s legacy – as part of cultural-historical activity theory – is discussed as an open-ended, dynamic, and <em>continuously emerging</em> system of ideas. The meaning and import of these ideas are becoming transparent in the context of contemporary <em>conceptual revolution</em> in psychology. Various trends within this cutting-edge movement have converged on the notion of relationality – in opposition to traditional “substance” metaphysics that posits self-contained, independent entities as the exclusive analytical focus. CHAT is revealed to be a <em>pioneer </em>in this conceptual revolution, contributing conceptual advances such as on embodied, situated, distributed, and enacted cognition/mind and on a (non-dual) “natureculture.” In CHAT, human development is an open-ended, dynamic, non-linear, and ever-unfolding, that is, <em>emergent process</em> with no preprogrammed blueprints. This process is composed of embodied bi-directional interactivities of persons-acting-in-the-world, embedded in fluid contexts – soft assemblages contingent on situational demands and affordances. Moreover, CHAT foregrounds <em>collective dynamics </em>of meaningful shared activities extending through history as a unified onto-epistemology of human development and mind. In addition, CHAT also offers, in outlines, steps to move beyond the relational paradigm towards a transformative worldview premised on the notion of a simultaneous persons-and-the-world co-realizing.</p> |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e0b8a36ff03942bb9b7e349f7b06fc922023-05-17T15:02:15ZengMoscow State University of Psychology and EducationКультурно-историческая психология1816-54352224-89352023-01-01191202910.17759/chp.2023190103Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and its Contemporary Import: Ideas Emerging in Context and Time.A.P. Stetsenko0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0960-8875New York city University <p>Alexey N. Leontiev’s legacy – as part of cultural-historical activity theory – is discussed as an open-ended, dynamic, and <em>continuously emerging</em> system of ideas. The meaning and import of these ideas are becoming transparent in the context of contemporary <em>conceptual revolution</em> in psychology. Various trends within this cutting-edge movement have converged on the notion of relationality – in opposition to traditional “substance” metaphysics that posits self-contained, independent entities as the exclusive analytical focus. CHAT is revealed to be a <em>pioneer </em>in this conceptual revolution, contributing conceptual advances such as on embodied, situated, distributed, and enacted cognition/mind and on a (non-dual) “natureculture.” In CHAT, human development is an open-ended, dynamic, non-linear, and ever-unfolding, that is, <em>emergent process</em> with no preprogrammed blueprints. This process is composed of embodied bi-directional interactivities of persons-acting-in-the-world, embedded in fluid contexts – soft assemblages contingent on situational demands and affordances. Moreover, CHAT foregrounds <em>collective dynamics </em>of meaningful shared activities extending through history as a unified onto-epistemology of human development and mind. In addition, CHAT also offers, in outlines, steps to move beyond the relational paradigm towards a transformative worldview premised on the notion of a simultaneous persons-and-the-world co-realizing.</p>https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/chp/archive/2023_n1/Stetsenko |
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