Community Dialogue 1: Dr. Kris D. Gutiérrez & Dr. Mike Rifino in conversation
Dear colleagues, We are excited to share with you a series of conversations that took place at the annual meeting...
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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 readers to contribute by commenting on the two-minute long video clips. These topic-based excerpts are selected from longer interviews and presentations by CHAT scholars and educators from around the globe.
Why generations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XijCqxkpHLU&feature=youtu.be In this video Professor Yrjö Engeström responds to Anna Zarkh's question on the reasons to use the term generations...
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Why this Video Series?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiuNr0_cx9Q Ivana Guarrasi talks about the intention behind creating the Video Series as an international, cross-generational platform for discussion and...
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An Audience Participation Question…Let’s Have Some Fun!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE2d4W5PpL4&list=PLEK3JV1Ux_5XSL5nLcnC1cQp2m8lqUVs9&index=1 Writing for the general public is challenging -- and rewarding. How would YOU explain Vygotsky's theory for a general...
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What Are Concepts, and How Might They Be Taught?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYiyULPUAOc&list=PLEK3JV1Ux_5W2ZfG2I-J7prbfDUK_dIlo&index=1 Important questions. Interesting answers. Excerpts from Andy Blunden, Huw Lloyd, Peter Smagorinsky, David Kellogg, and Nikolai Veresov provide a...
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Using 4th Generation Activity Theory to fight homelessness in Finland
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGcspewxQGw The video is an excerpt from a talk by Professor Annalisa Sannino (Tampere University, Finland) and Professor Yrjö Engeström...
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Fernanda Liberali revisita Vygotsky pelas perspectivas da pandemia de COVID-19 e da decolonialidade
Fernanda Liberali revisits Vygostsky from COVID-19 pandemic and decoloniality perspectives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9HGAdXLIc4 Go to 2:09 - for English version and 0:05...
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Nikolai Veresov on “are the laws of thought objective?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07joKmr9rlA Nikolai Veresov discusses Vygotsky's "greatest contribution" , the "discovery of the objectively existing laws of the development of all...
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Dr. Natalia Gajdamaschko on the ‘crisis’ in the classroom (the good kind)
https://youtu.be/dJiZio1JFN0 "... development comes out of resolving some sort of contradiction... some type of crisis... a good crisis" Go...
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VIDEO: Dear Professor from Learning Scientists on Anti-Blackness BLM Scholar Strike 720
By Arturo Cortez, José Lizárraga, A. Susan Jurow, Ben Kirshner, Elizabeth Mendoza, Christina Paguyo, Bill Penuel, Molly Shea, Kathy Schultz,...
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RECORDING – Re-generating CHAT online symposium. Learning from Learners: Power, Resistance and Learners’ Voices in an Era of Uncertainty
One outcome of the Re-generating CHAT project is an online invited symposium that was held as part of European Association...
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Mike’s Coffee Chats #5: Formative Interventions – Examples
In the spring semester of 2020, Mike Cole participated in a course offered by Kris Gutiérrez at Berkeley billed as...
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