Freedom of speech as an abstract ideal does not exist. Freedom of speech can only occur within concrete power systems and social relations. The question is, “Whose freedom, and freedom for what?” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote: “I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when...
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By Julian Williams and Terry Wrigley Preface: we hope that this paper will open up discussion involving all those interested in Green research in education and others engaging with the global challenges of climate, pandemics, and inequalities. It arose from...
This paper was constructed with a critical race theoretical lens and centered on storytelling as a legitimate intellectual, methodological tool. As an African-American, a descendant of enslaved Africans, my cultural experience in this country is rooted in this particular and...
Vygotsky's Writings about Imagination and Creativity Following an earlier discussion on XMCA initiated by Francine Smolucha, David Kellogg and Bernard Schneuwly, they have taken up my suggestion to gather for a coffee hour on Zoom. We are scheduling the discussion...
The AERA Cultural-historical theory SIG is organizing a preconference session, which continues from where the Re-generating CHAT project left. The virtual participation is free of charge and open for everyone, The in-person participation requires registration to the AERA conference. (Flyer attached) To register...
The editorial collective of Cultural Praxis stands with the victims of the war in Ukraine. We say no to war in Ukraine, and no to the “forgotten” wars and forms of violence in Ethiopia, Libya, Palestine, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen. People have the...
Dear colleagues, We are excited to share with you a series of conversations that took place at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association Cultural Historical SIG Business Meeting in 2021. The three videos that will be released...
By Julian Williams As I write this Dec 3, 2021, today more than 50 universities across the UK entered their third day on strike for better pay and conditions, and an end to casualization and inequalities; many are also striking...
By David Carré and Paul Cavada-Hrepich El día 25 de Octubre de 2020, la ciudadanía en Chile aprobó reescribir la Constitución del país por enorme mayoría. Lo que puede parecer como un ejercicio democrático común para otros países es, probablemente,...
By David Carré and Paul Cavada-Hrepich On October 25th 2020, Chileans massively approved to rewrite their national Constitution. What might seem like an ordinary exercise of democracy for other nations arguably is the most genuine democratic act in the whole...
You are invited to join the discussion organized by the Critical pedagogies and Mathematics Education (CPME) research program at the University of Manchester, UK. Researchers will share important insights based on the case studies from The Rochdale Pakistani Communities Call...
The special issue that is focus in this discussion is published online in the Mind, Culture, and Activity webpages.
The 9th Nordic-Baltic ISCAR conference will be held in Helsinki, Finland between 14 and 16 of June 2022. Our conference theme is “Towards inclusive and just societies: a dialogue with, within and beyond CHAT”. In the spirit of our theme, we...