Mind Culture and Activity Volume 4 Issue 3

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INTRODUCTION

The Editors,

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_1

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Computers in Mediated Human Activity

Bodker, Susanne

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_2

In this article, I investigate an alternative place for the computer with respect to human cognition. Instead of the computer as a model of the human being, I explore the computer in its role as mediator of human activity based on activity theory. In particular, I discuss various metaphors for...

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Constructing and Deconstructing the Self: Comparing Post-Vygotskian and Discourse-Based Versions of Social Constructivism

Stetsenko, Anna; Arievitch, Igor

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_3

Constructing and deconstructing the self are the two alternative ways to conceive of a human agentic individual that coexist in the present-day socioconstructivist framework. We analyze two respective theoretical approaches employing the grounding assumptions of social constructivism: (a) the...

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Seymour Sarason and the Creation of Settings

Cole, Michael

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_4

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Revisiting the Creating of Settings

Sarason, Seymour B.

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_5

I begin by briefly indicating the personal experiences that stimulated me to write the book. I do so because I have come to believe that crucial to the creation of a setting is the range and substance of the leaders' personal and cognitive past experiences in and with complicated settings, and I...

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From the Creation of Settings to the Sustaining of Institutions

Cole, Michael

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_6

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The Creation of Mediating Settings

Moll, Luis C.

1997 "Mind, Culture, and Activity"

doi:10.1207/s15327884mca0403_7