Beth Ferholt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3593748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Ferholt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferholt |
| SIGNATURE | FERHOLT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4913-0474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Learning, development, and Theory in motion: Revisiting cultural-historical perspectives in uncertain times
This issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity assembles a set of articles that, in various ways, return us to the core questions the journal strives to engage with: questions of learning, development, ...
Cultural historical research in support of inclusive classrooms: Two Approaches in Dialogue
This article showcases the potential of dialogue within cultural historical research (CHR) to enhance our understanding of and advocacy for inclusivity in schools. It illustrates how the authors, each rooted in distinct subfields – cultural historical activity theory (CHAT) and romantic science – employ a unique approach to knowledge production regarding inclusive classrooms. By refraining from the pursuit of agreement and instead fostering an en…
Reflections on the Iscar 2024 Congress
MCA editorial - vol 31 issue 3-4
Regenerating CHAT through learners' voices and collectivism
Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity
Creative spaces in and beyond education
This issue includes a collection of five research articles and a book review that contribute to understanding creativity and equity in contemporary spaces in and beyond education. The issue opens with a paper by Areej Mawasi, William Penuel, and Arturo Cortez, exploring aspects of intergenerational co-design in the context of higher education. The paper, titled “They were learning from us as we were learning from them: perceived experiences in co…
No to war
A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity
Special Issue: “Advancing Funds of Identity Theory”
This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and
Scholarship and research in crisis contexts
Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities
To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi
Playworlds as Ways of Being, A Chorus of Voices: Why are Playworlds Worth Creating
This paper discusses the playworlds of the Playworld of Creative Research (PWCR) research group. Play¬worlds are created from a relatively new form of play that can be described as a combination of adult forms of creative imagination (art, science, etc.), which require extensive real life experience, and children’s forms of creative imagination (play), which require the embodiment of ideas and emotions in the material world. In playworlds, adults…
Responding to LCHC’s polyphonic autobiography: Studying rocks in a landslide and the creation of new, more humane forms of LCHC’s own activity
Doing social science ... is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a landslide. – Roy D’Andrade (as cited in Cole, 1995, p. 190) The acid test of the theory is its success in guiding the constru
Humanity’s leading activity: Survival, of the humanity of our species
In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th
Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells
In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou
Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity
We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio
Genetic analyses in sociocultural research across disciplines and practices
Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead
We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across
Scholarly work and/as passion
With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in
Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of Mind, Culture, and Activity
As the editorial team of Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA), we write with a sense of urgency in regenerating our commitment to our collective history while strengthening our efforts to welcome new
Growing Forward: Imagining the Year Ahead
We begin the new year building from the past, reflecting on a shared present, and imagining possible futures. As we do so, we want to acknowledge changes as they occur, thanking colleagues for thei
Emotion and Affect Across Varied Contexts and Genres
Identity, Knowledge, Power, and Educational Reform
This, the second issue of 2018, presents five original articles, followed by three book reviews. Although all of these are independent works, two main threads appear pervasive across several of the
Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation
This issue comprises five articles and two book reviews. One theme in the articles is social change and transformation in or through activity, which seems to be grounded in conceptions of dialectic
Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation
This issue comprises five articles and two book reviews. One theme in the articles is social change and transformation in or through activity, which seems to be grounded in conceptions of dialectic
Vygotsky's theories of play, imagination and creativity in current practice: Gunilla Lindqvist's “creative pedagogy of play” in U. S. kindergartens and Swedish Reggio-Emilia inspired preschools
The ideal of modern western childhood, with its emphasis on the innocence and malleability of children, has combined with various social conditions to promote adult's direction of children's play towards adult-determined developmental goals, and adult's protection of children's play from adults.However, new forms of play, in which adults actively enter into the fantasy play of young children as a means of promoting the development and quality of …
Playworlds as Ways of Being, A Chorus of Voices: Why are Playworlds Worth Creating
This paper discusses the playworlds of the Playworld of Creative Research (PWCR) research group. Play¬worlds are created from a relatively new form of play that can be described as a combination of adult forms of creative imagination (art, science, etc.), which require extensive real life experience, and children’s forms of creative imagination (play), which require the embodiment of ideas and emotions in the material world. In playworlds, adults…
Adult and Child Development in the Zone of Proximal Development: Socratic Dialogue in a Playworld
This article analyses adult and child development in the zone of proximal development in an educational practice based in Vygotsky's theories of play: the playworld educational practice. The playworld educational practice is a central component of a Scandinavian play pedagogy that promotes shared responsibility amongst adults and children for engaging in adult–child joint play. The playworld practice, which is based on a work of children's litera…
Vygotsky's theories of play, imagination and creativity in current practice: Gunilla Lindqvist's “creative pedagogy of play” in U. S. kindergartens and Swedish Reggio-Emilia inspired preschools
The ideal of modern western childhood, with its emphasis on the innocence and malleability of children, has combined with various social conditions to promote adult's direction of children's play towards adult-determined developmental goals, and adult's protection of children's play from adults.However, new forms of play, in which adults actively enter into the fantasy play of young children as a means of promoting the development and quality of …
Early Childhood Perezhivaniya
Our overarching response to this collection of articles on perezhivanie is that the great range of topics across the articles makes necessary more specific conference discussions and papers: those
Perezhivaniya as a Means of Creating the Aesthetic Form of Consciousness
Until recently scholars have placed the emergence of perezhivaniya in the later stages of childhood or in adolescence. This article clarifies the meaning of the term perezhivanie by describing perezhivaniya across the life span. We also delineate stages of perezhivaniya. We take into account the work of a range of scholars and artists whose studies of the properties of perezhivaniya have converged, often without their using, or possibly even bein…
Returning to Meaning Making as Essential for Praxis
The threads that draw these articles together are formed by questions of meaning making, not simply for research participants, but for researchers as well. Whether attempting to document the meanin
Growing Forward: Imagining the Year Ahead
We begin the new year building from the past, reflecting on a shared present, and imagining possible futures. As we do so, we want to acknowledge changes as they occur, thanking colleagues for thei
Emotion and Affect Across Varied Contexts and Genres
Identity, Knowledge, Power, and Educational Reform
This, the second issue of 2018, presents five original articles, followed by three book reviews. Although all of these are independent works, two main threads appear pervasive across several of the
Development: The Dialectics of Transgression and Social Transformation
This issue comprises five articles and two book reviews. One theme in the articles is social change and transformation in or through activity, which seems to be grounded in conceptions of dialectic
Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead
We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across
Scholarly work and/as passion
With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in
Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of Mind, Culture, and Activity
As the editorial team of Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA), we write with a sense of urgency in regenerating our commitment to our collective history while strengthening our efforts to welcome new
Responding to LCHC’s polyphonic autobiography: Studying rocks in a landslide and the creation of new, more humane forms of LCHC’s own activity
Doing social science ... is like being a geologist who studies rocks in a landslide. – Roy D’Andrade (as cited in Cole, 1995, p. 190) The acid test of the theory is its success in guiding the constru
Humanity’s leading activity: Survival, of the humanity of our species
In the midst of ongoing and unprecedented global crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, we open the present issue with an editorial call to scholars worldwide about learning in and from th
Long-term and current concerns in CHAT scholarship, and a dedication to Gordon Wells
In support of social movements that fight for freedom and liberation, and against racial and ecological injustices, we take the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to scholarship that cares abou
Closing a challenging year, strengthening relevant scholarship in cultural studies of mind and activity
We end a year marked by a global pandemic that has taken the lives of more than a million people globally, and has exacerbated and made more visible social and economic inequities that disproportio
Genetic analyses in sociocultural research across disciplines and practices
Special Issue: “Advancing Funds of Identity Theory”
This special issue on Funds of Identity, guest edited by Moises Esteban-Guitart, is comprised of six research papers and Esteban-Guitart’s response, with collective support from Julian Williams and
Scholarship and research in crisis contexts
Our commitment at this time of continuing struggle against oppression and structural inequalities
To “the fierce urgency of now”(Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘I Have a Dream’ speech at the March on Washington on August 28, 1963)As we continue to confront crises, turmoil, and struggles for justi
Playworlds as Ways of Being, A Chorus of Voices: Why are Playworlds Worth Creating
This paper discusses the playworlds of the Playworld of Creative Research (PWCR) research group. Play¬worlds are created from a relatively new form of play that can be described as a combination of adult forms of creative imagination (art, science, etc.), which require extensive real life experience, and children’s forms of creative imagination (play), which require the embodiment of ideas and emotions in the material world. In playworlds, adults…
No to war
A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity
Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity
Creative spaces in and beyond education
This issue includes a collection of five research articles and a book review that contribute to understanding creativity and equity in contemporary spaces in and beyond education. The issue opens with a paper by Areej Mawasi, William Penuel, and Arturo Cortez, exploring aspects of intergenerational co-design in the context of higher education. The paper, titled “They were learning from us as we were learning from them: perceived experiences in co…
Sociology (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works)