Manolis Dafermos
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1370092 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Manolis Dafermos |
| PRENOMES | Manolis |
| SOBRENOME | Dafermos |
| ASSINATURA | DAFERMOS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Crete |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7321-8145 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Vygotsky meets artificial intelligence
This paper revisits Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory to address key epistemological challenges in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on the question of AI’s subject matter and research methodology. It critically engages with the long-standing debate between symbolic and connectionist approaches, examining AI’s epistemological underpinnings through the lens of Vygotsky’s insights. Until recently, the cultural-historical nat…
Discussing the Concept of Crisis in Cultural-historical Activity Research
The dialectics of digitalization and learning in a crisis-ridden world
Exploring Paradoxes in the Development of Mathematical Thinking
Primary school teachers are the educators responsible for introducing children into the world of mathematics. In the process of learning mathematics, children may experience negative emotions and develop negative attitudes or mathematics anxiety. Some authors approach these issues by focusing on primary teachers’ mathematics anxiety or proficiency in mathematics. In this article, we explore whether and how certain social and educational practices…
Rethinking the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic
This article sheds light on the little known and poorly understood extensive discussion on the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic in the tradition of creative Soviet Marxism. The exploration of the mechanism of ascending from the abstract to the concrete and its relation to the movement of thought from the concrete to the abstract was one of the key points of this discussion. The ascending from the abstract to the co…
The medicalisation of learning difficulties through the prism of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological approach
The purpose of this study is to map the medicalisation of learning difficulties in the remote and mountainous areas in Chania Prefecture, Crete, when pupils are referred to Diagnostic Institutes to be assessed and possibly receive a learning difficulty diagnosis. It provides evidence on the fact that the learning difficulties identification procedure tends to be individually oriented and to neglect contextual dimensions, as well as the interactio…
The metaphysics of psychology and a dialectical perspective
This article aims to examine the relation between psychology and metaphysics. Despite psychology’s claim of being an exact science, like physics, it contains an implicit commitment to metaphysical assumptions, such as ahistorical universalism, ontological dualism, abstract individualism, and the fragmentation of the human mind. This paper proposes a dialectical perspective as a way to overcome the unidimensional examination of psychological pheno…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
Greetings from Our Foreign Colleagues
Путем вычисления такого индекса, как «размер эффекта» по J. Cohen, определена сила влияния коморбидной патологии (развитие ишемической кардиомиопатии на фоне нейролептической) на морфометрические параметры сердца, характеризующие его состояние на разных уровнях организации. Установлено, что практически все изученные показатели оказываются чувствительными, хотя и в различной степени, к указанному неблагоприятному воздействию. By calculation of suc…
Critical Reflection on the Reception of Vygotsky’s Theory in the International Academic Communities
This paper is an attempt to analyze various types of the reception of Vygotsky’s theory in the international academic communities. The paper develops a critical analysis of three widespread theoretical frameworks of interpretation of Vygotsky’s theory: cognitivism, culturalism, cultural-historical activity theory. It is argues that fragmented readings of particular ideas of Vygotsky, without enough understanding of the theoretical programme in wh…
Wikipedia in Education
YouTube, young people, and the socioeconomic crises in Greece
The overriding aim of this paper is to analyse Greek adolescents' digital video making and sharing, the voices they represent in their videos, the dialogical interactions they evoke, and how this activity relates to their everyday lives as they traverse the crises that have taken hold in their country. A focused search of YouTube content was conducted which yielded five videos for analysis. These texts were ‘re-read’ using multimodal analysis and…
Vygotsky’s analysis of the crisis in psychology
The theoretical analysis of the crisis in psychology is one of the most important contributions of Vygotsky, which has yet remained undervalued by the majority of modern scholars. For Vygotsky, the crisis in psychology is not a simple expression of the existence of separate and competitive theories and approaches, but a result of fundamental theoretical and philosophical tensions in the domain of psychology and also the tension between existing p…
Philosophical dialogues as paths to a more ‘positive psychology’
Although family support programmes have been in place for several decades in Greece very little attention has been paid to evaluating the effectiveness of such endeavours, the techniques that influence their outcomes and the receptiveness to their messages. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of research findings collected during the first qualitative research phase of a community mental health promotion project. The research was con…
Critical Reflection on the Reception of Vygotsky’s Theory in the International Academic Communities
This paper is an attempt to analyze various types of the reception of Vygotsky’s theory in the international academic communities. The paper develops a critical analysis of three widespread theoretical frameworks of interpretation of Vygotsky’s theory: cognitivism, culturalism, cultural-historical activity theory. It is argues that fragmented readings of particular ideas of Vygotsky, without enough understanding of the theoretical programme in wh…
Rethinking the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic
This article sheds light on the little known and poorly understood extensive discussion on the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic in the tradition of creative Soviet Marxism. The exploration of the mechanism of ascending from the abstract to the concrete and its relation to the movement of thought from the concrete to the abstract was one of the key points of this discussion. The ascending from the abstract to the co…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
Philosophical dialogues as paths to a more ‘positive psychology’
Although family support programmes have been in place for several decades in Greece very little attention has been paid to evaluating the effectiveness of such endeavours, the techniques that influence their outcomes and the receptiveness to their messages. The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of research findings collected during the first qualitative research phase of a community mental health promotion project. The research was con…
Vygotsky’s analysis of the crisis in psychology
The theoretical analysis of the crisis in psychology is one of the most important contributions of Vygotsky, which has yet remained undervalued by the majority of modern scholars. For Vygotsky, the crisis in psychology is not a simple expression of the existence of separate and competitive theories and approaches, but a result of fundamental theoretical and philosophical tensions in the domain of psychology and also the tension between existing p…
Wikipedia in Education
YouTube, young people, and the socioeconomic crises in Greece
The overriding aim of this paper is to analyse Greek adolescents' digital video making and sharing, the voices they represent in their videos, the dialogical interactions they evoke, and how this activity relates to their everyday lives as they traverse the crises that have taken hold in their country. A focused search of YouTube content was conducted which yielded five videos for analysis. These texts were ‘re-read’ using multimodal analysis and…
Critical Reflection on the Reception of Vygotsky’s Theory in the International Academic Communities
This paper is an attempt to analyze various types of the reception of Vygotsky’s theory in the international academic communities. The paper develops a critical analysis of three widespread theoretical frameworks of interpretation of Vygotsky’s theory: cognitivism, culturalism, cultural-historical activity theory. It is argues that fragmented readings of particular ideas of Vygotsky, without enough understanding of the theoretical programme in wh…
Greetings from Our Foreign Colleagues
Путем вычисления такого индекса, как «размер эффекта» по J. Cohen, определена сила влияния коморбидной патологии (развитие ишемической кардиомиопатии на фоне нейролептической) на морфометрические параметры сердца, характеризующие его состояние на разных уровнях организации. Установлено, что практически все изученные показатели оказываются чувствительными, хотя и в различной степени, к указанному неблагоприятному воздействию. By calculation of suc…
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory Travels to Greece
This article explores how socio-cultural, cultural-historical and activity theory approaches to education and psychology have traveled to Greece over the last three decades. It explores the history of introducing these approaches in the Greek context while identifying key dimensions of the process, such as: diverse interpretation of original works, key actors in academic teaching and research and linkages with educational policy and activism beyo…
The medicalisation of learning difficulties through the prism of Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological approach
The purpose of this study is to map the medicalisation of learning difficulties in the remote and mountainous areas in Chania Prefecture, Crete, when pupils are referred to Diagnostic Institutes to be assessed and possibly receive a learning difficulty diagnosis. It provides evidence on the fact that the learning difficulties identification procedure tends to be individually oriented and to neglect contextual dimensions, as well as the interactio…
The metaphysics of psychology and a dialectical perspective
This article aims to examine the relation between psychology and metaphysics. Despite psychology’s claim of being an exact science, like physics, it contains an implicit commitment to metaphysical assumptions, such as ahistorical universalism, ontological dualism, abstract individualism, and the fragmentation of the human mind. This paper proposes a dialectical perspective as a way to overcome the unidimensional examination of psychological pheno…
Rethinking the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic
This article sheds light on the little known and poorly understood extensive discussion on the relationship between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Science of Logic in the tradition of creative Soviet Marxism. The exploration of the mechanism of ascending from the abstract to the concrete and its relation to the movement of thought from the concrete to the abstract was one of the key points of this discussion. The ascending from the abstract to the co…
Exploring Paradoxes in the Development of Mathematical Thinking
Primary school teachers are the educators responsible for introducing children into the world of mathematics. In the process of learning mathematics, children may experience negative emotions and develop negative attitudes or mathematics anxiety. Some authors approach these issues by focusing on primary teachers’ mathematics anxiety or proficiency in mathematics. In this article, we explore whether and how certain social and educational practices…
Discussing the Concept of Crisis in Cultural-historical Activity Research
The dialectics of digitalization and learning in a crisis-ridden world
Vygotsky meets artificial intelligence
This paper revisits Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory to address key epistemological challenges in artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular focus on the question of AI’s subject matter and research methodology. It critically engages with the long-standing debate between symbolic and connectionist approaches, examining AI’s epistemological underpinnings through the lens of Vygotsky’s insights. Until recently, the cultural-historical nat…
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