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Dialogues

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.

Coffee Hour with Andrew Coppens

October 10, 2022

Dear Coffee Hour Fans,The next in our series of coffee hour discussions will host Andrew Coppens, a facultymember at the...

Coffee Hour

Habits of Collective Memory: Coffee Hour with James Wertsch

by Mara Welsh Mahmood

October 2, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2yZgM6-OE4 On September 21st we held our first coffee hour of the 2022-2023 academic year. Our guest was Jim Wertsch....

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Community Dialogue 1: Dr. Kris D. Gutiérrez & Dr. Mike Rifino in conversation

by Arturo Cortez

March 7, 2022

Dear colleagues, We are excited to share with you a series of conversations that took place at the annual meeting...

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Why generations?

by Victoria

November 23, 2020

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?

by Victoria

November 18, 2020

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!

by Victoria

November 9, 2020

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?

by Victoria

November 2, 2020

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

by Victoria

October 26, 2020

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

by Victoria

October 19, 2020

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?”

by Victoria

October 12, 2020

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...