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Stalinist Realism and Capitalist Realism
with Professor Ian Parker
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism
An intervention from critical psychology, psychoanalysis and political organisation.
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Rehearsing Development
with Dr. Lois Holzman
Augusto Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed
Vygotsky, performance, play and social therapeutics as a lens for reading Boal.
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How Does Subject Matter Become Thinkable?
with Dr. Seth Chaiklin
V. V. Davydov, "Basic Propositions of the Dialectical Materialist Theory of Thinking," Chapter 4 in Problems of Developmental Instruction. Reading basis: the whole chapter. Discussion focus: section 7 "The Method of Ascent from the Abstract to the Concrete"
A session on Davydov, theoretical thinking and Seth Chaiklin’s cultural-historical approach to subject-matter analysis.
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Theatre, Play and Community
with Dr. Paul Leonard Murray
Jacques Rancière, The Emancipated Spectator, Chapter 3, “Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community”
A session on theatre as community-making, performance and the seriousness of play.
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Special edition: Advancing cultural-historical research: from experimental-genetic method to genetic research methodology
with Professor Nikolai Veresov
Nikolai Veresov’s forthcoming methodology chapter in Cultural-historical research methodology across ages and cultures. Final reading details to be announced.
Special edition devoted entirely to Nikolai Veresov’s work on cultural-historical research methodology. Provisional title; readings to follow.
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Subjectivity Beyond Adaptation: González Rey, Critical Psychology and Social Change
with Dr. Daniel M. Goulart
Primary text to be announced
A discussion of González Rey, subjectivity and development in concrete practices.
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Relational Agency and Professional Practice
with Professor Anne Edwards
Primary text to be announced
A session on relational agency, reciprocity, common knowledge and emergent possibilities in professional practice.
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Creativity, Marginality and Participation
with Professor Bojana Škorc
Primary text to be announced
A session on creativity, development, marginality, participation and the emergence of new meanings in practice.
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Culture, Mediation and the Design of Development
with Professor Michael Cole
Michael Cole, Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline; selected later papers to be announced
Professor Michael Cole has suggested Cultural Psychology as the core text, with later papers showing the next steps in the inquiry.