James V Wertsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James V Wertsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | James V |
| FAMILY NAME | Wertsch |
| SIGNATURE | WERTSCH J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor, Washington University in St. Louis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 202 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
National Memories
Memory in Mind and Culture
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising…
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His non-deterministic, non-reductionist account of the formation of mind provides current theoretical developments with a broadly drawn yet very powerful sketch of the ways in which humans shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and historical conditions. This d…
Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
Sociocultural Studies of Mind
Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the primary question: how is mental functioning related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it exists? Although the contributors speak from different perspectives, there is a clear set of unifying themes that run through the volume: 1. One of the basic ways that sociocultural setting shapes mental functioning is through the cultural tools employed. 2. Mediation provides a formul…
Culture, communication and cognition
Culture, communication and cognition
Sociocultural Studies of Mind
Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the primary question: how is mental functioning related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in which it exists? Although the contributors speak from different perspectives, there is a clear set of unifying themes that run through the volume: 1. One of the basic ways that sociocultural setting shapes mental functioning is through the cultural tools employed. 2. Mediation provides a formul…
The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
L. S. Vygotsky was an early-twentieth-century Russian social theorist whose writing exerts a significant influence on the development of social theory in the early-twenty-first century. His non-deterministic, non-reductionist account of the formation of mind provides current theoretical developments with a broadly drawn yet very powerful sketch of the ways in which humans shape and are shaped by social, cultural, and historical conditions. This d…
Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky
Memory in Mind and Culture
This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising…
National Memories
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Cognition and culture (2 works) · Collective memory (2 works)