Dialectical Thinking and Creativity: Reconciling Opposing Points of View
Time: 9am, Pacific Standard Time, Tuesday Dec 17 Facilitator: Francine Smolucha (Guest Speakers to be announced) Summary: This session follows Nikolay...
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This CHAT Dialogue section aims to create a forum for scholars, teachers, and activists to engage in a critical dialogue about Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) concepts and their relevance for social transformation in the current global crisis. We invite you to contribute by commenting on the posted video clips from presentations by CHAT scholars and educators from around the globe.
The Development of Dialectical Thinking with Prof. Nikolay Veraksa
Time: 12:00 AM (midnight) Pacific Standard Time, Tuesday, December 10, 2024 (We understand this time may be unusual, but it...
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Coffee Hour: Reenvisioning Equity Research – Disability Identification Disparities as a Case in Point
Friday, November 22nd 9:00 am Pacific STANDARD time Guest speakers: Alfredo Artiles, Stanford University Disparities in the identification of children as disabled...
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Coffee Hour: Critical and Cultural-Historical Perspectives on the Eco-social Crisis
Tuesday, November 12. 9:00am Pacific STANDARD time Guest speakers: Alfredo Jornet (University of Girona) and Antti Rajala (University of Neuchatel) Dear...
Read moreDetailsCoffee Hour: Views of Romantic Science. Sacks, Luria and Bruner
Tuesday October 22nd at 9am Pacific Time Guest commentators: Mike Cole, Hannah Proctor, Peter Smagorinsky, Luca Tateo, & Aaro Toomela....
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Using Fundamental Principles of Vygotsky’s Theory to go Beyond him: How to Understand Human Creativity
Tuesday September 24th at 9am Pacific Daylight Savings Time Guest Speaker: Aaro Toomela, Tallinn University, Estonia - Professor of Cultural and...
Read moreDetailsTools of the Mind: 30 years of implementing a Vygotskian-based ECE program in US preschools and kindergartens with Elena Bodrova and Deborah J. Leong
Tuesday, September 3rd at 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Savings Time Elena Bodrova, Ph. D., Co-Founder and Knowledge advisor, Tools of the...
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Child-to-Child outreach at a rural Zambian school: an enacted utopia?
A short essay on the futures of education, following the presentation at the Futures of Education Seminar, hosted by Cultural...
Read moreDetailsNeural Networks for Inner Speech with Charles Fernyhough
Tuesday, June 4th at 9am Pacific Daylight Savings Time Guest Speaker: Charles Fernyhough, Professor Department of Psychology, Durham University, UK...
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The Idea of Polytechnic Education in Marxist Theory
Essay by A.D. Maidansky, University of Belgorod In his well-known article, “The Socialist Reformation of Man,” Vygotsky argued that the...
Read moreDetailsImagination at Work: Are we a simulation? with Eugene Subbotsky
Tuesday, May 14th at 9am Pacific Daylight Savings Time Guest Speaker: Eugene Subbotsky, Reader (Emeritus) Lancaster University, UK Contact Francine...
Read moreDetailsNeurological Networks for Creative Imagination with Francine Smolucha
Tuesday, April 30 at 9:00 am Pacific Daylight Saving Time Guest Speaker: Francine Smolucha Summary: In the past forty years,...
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