Sociocultural psychology and regulatory processes in learning activity : contributions of cultural-historical psychological theory

• Main Authors: Stone, Lynda Dyanne, (Author), Hart, Tabitha, (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019
• Subjects: lidské chování; kultura > psychologické aspekty; pedagogická psychologie; sociální psychologie; human behavior; educational psychology; social psychology; culture > psychological aspects; monografie; monographs
• ISBN: 978-1-107-10503-4
• Physical Description: xix, 125 stran : ilustrace ; 24 cm

"[W]e offer a novel approach to behavioral regulation that helps explain how controlling, directing, and constructing complex cognitive behaviors emerge from relational and agential processes of engagement that are continuously interwoven with a community's cultural and semiotic resources, including tools and signs, norms, values, expectations, and moral ethos. To do this, we draw upon sociocultural theories to develop four alternate, sociocultural frames intended to illuminate how social contexts and learning processes (and/or developmental processes) are interrelated. These new frames are designed to bring into focus how engagement in all forms of behavioral regulation (self-, co-, and other-) and socially-shared regulatory processes function together as relational parts of a whole system for gaining, maintaining, and displaying competencies in the lived world. This entanglement of regulatory processes is an integral part of social, individual, contextual, and instrumental (mediational) aspects of controlling and directing ways of thinking, feelings, and doing"--