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This is the wiki for Sociocultural Theory (EPSY 590SC) Spring 2007, taught by Professor Cynthia Carter Ching at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Seminar members include Sebiha Balci, Geneene Thompson, Tony Hursh, Grant Wolfford, Raynika Trent, and Daniel Tessema.

We are reading foundational texts and seminal authors in sociocultural theory, as well as more recent work applying sociocultural theory to the study of problems in education and other fields. Foundational readings are chosen by the professor, but many of the applied texts that will appear here are chosen by the students.

We expect the structure of this wiki to begin by summarizing and posing questions of chapters from foundational texts, but hopefully the structure will evolve as we make interconnections among authors, ideas, and multiple contexts and applications.

Readers should note that this wiki is an evolving artifact of community knowledge in process. Entries that appear here are not intended to act as authoritative, final-form sources of information on sociocultural theory, but rather as continual documentation of our own developing understandings in this complex and difficult field.

Contents 1 Vygotsky 1.1 Important Terms & Concepts 2 Lev Vygotsky's Mind in Society 3 Michael Cole's Cultural Psychology 4 Barbara Rogoff's The Cultural Nature of Human Development 5 Wertsch's Voice of Rationality in a Sociocultural Approach to Mind 6 Alexander's A City is Not a Tree --Tony Hursh 7 Lave and Wenger's Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation 8 Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice 9 Learning in Strategic Alliances: A Vygotskian Perspective -- Raynika Trent 10 Kress, G.- Design and Transformation: New Theories of Meaning-- Daniel Tessema 11 Jarvis, P. (2006) Toward a comprehensive theory of human learning -- Grant Wofford 12 Cyberbullying and Sociocultural Theory-- Geneene N Thompson 13 Deaf Children's Use of Private Speech -- Sebiha Balci

Vygotsky

Important Terms & Concepts

• • Marxism

• • Empiricism

• • Gestalt Psychology

• • Ontogeny/Ontogenesis

• • Phylogeny/Phylogenesis

• • Microgenesis

• • General Genetic Law

• • Zone of Proximal Development

• • Semiotic Mediation

• • Egocentric Speech

• • Inter-mental plane

• • Intra-mental plane

• • Internalization

Lev Vygotsky's Mind in Society

• • Introduction to Vygotsky's Mind in Society - Cynthia Carter Ching

• • Chapter 1: Tool and Symbol in Child Development- Grant Wofford

• • Chapter 2: The Development of Perception and Attention-Geneene N. Thompson

• • Chapter 3: Mastery of Memory and Thinking--Sebiha Balci

• • Chapter 4: Internalization of Higher Psychological Functions -- Tony Hursh

• • Chapter 5: Problems of Method --Raynika Trent

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• • Chapter 6: Interaction between Learning and Development--Sebiha Balci, Raynika Trent

• • Chapter 7: The Role of Play in Development--Geneene N. Thompson

• • Chapter 8: The Prehistory of Written Language -- Tony Hursh

• • Afterword - Grant

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Michael Cole's Cultural Psychology

Chapter 4: From Cross-Cultural Psychology to the Second Psychology

• • Rethinking the Two Psychologies, Visions of Cultural Psychology--Sebiha Balci

• • Principles of Cultural-Historical Psychology - Geneene N. Thompson

• • The Grand Scheme - Raynika Trent

Chapter 5: Putting Culture in the Middle

• • Artifacts and Artifact-Mediated Action - Daniel Tessema

• • Cultural Models, Schemas, and Scripts - Tony Hursh

• • On "Context" - Grant Wofford

Barbara Rogoff's The Cultural Nature of Human Development

Chapter 2: Development as Transformation of Participation in Cultural Activities

• • Introductory comments - pp. 37-42--Grant Wofford

• • Concepts Relating Cultural and Individual Development --Sebiha Balci

• • Sociocultural-Historical Theory - pages 50-51--Daniel Araya Tessema

• • Development as Transformation of Participation in Sociocultural Activity

- pages 52-62--Daniel Araya Tessema

Chapter 3: Individuals, Generations, and Dynamic Cultural Communities

• • Humans are Biologically Cultural pages 63-77- Geneene N. Thompson

• • Participation in Dynamic Cultural Communities - pages 77-84 Raynika Trent

Wertsch's Voice of Rationality in a Sociocultural Approach to Mind

• • Summary and Main Ideas--Geneene N. Thompson

Alexander's A City is Not a Tree --Tony Hursh

Alexander's original paper available at the author's web site (some images are not working) or at this archive location

Lave and Wenger's Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Lave and Wenger Chapter 1--Geneene N. Thompson (pp.29-34)Grant (pp.34-39)Raynika (pp. 39-43)

Lave and Wenger Chapter 2--Sebiha Balci (pp.47-52), Tony Hursh (pp. 53-58)

Lave and Wenger Chapter 3--Geneene N. Thompson (pp. 61-69) Sebiha Balci (pp.69-79)

Lave and Wenger Chapter 4--Raynika Trent (91-105), Daniel A. T. (pp.105-112), Tony Hursh (113-117)

Lave and Wenger Conclusion Tony Hursh (121-123)

Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice

Chapter 1: The objective limits of objectivism

• • From the mechanics of the model to the dialectic of strategies--Raynika Trent (pp. 1-15)
  • Practice and discourse about practice--Daniel (pp. 16-30)
  • Section II: Case Study:Parallel-Cousin Marriage--Grant (pp. 30-43)
  • Collective beliefs and white lies/The ordinary and the extraordinary --Tony Hursh (pp 43-58)
  • Matrimonial strategies and social reproduction --Geneene N. Thompson (pp.58-71)
  • Class Discussion --Geneene N. Thompson

Chapter 2: Structures and the habitus

• • Structures and habitus--Daniel (pp. 72-78)
  • Structures, habitus and practices-Geneene N Thompson(p. 78-83)
  • The Dialectic of Objectification and Embodiment-- Sebiha Balci (pp. 87-95)
  • Some comments on Bourdieu -- Tony

Learning in Strategic Alliances: A Vygotskian Perspective -- Raynika Trent

• (Ghosh, A. in The Learning Organization, Vol. 11, No. 4/5, pp. 302-311, 2004)

Kress, G.- Design and Transformation: New Theories of Meaning-- Daniel Tessema

Jarvis, P. (2006) Toward a comprehensive theory of human learning -- Grant Wofford

• (Chapter 3: Learning in the social context)
• (Chapter 4: Experience--from which we learn)

Cyberbullying and Sociocultural Theory-- Geneene N Thompson

Deaf Children's Use of Private Speech -- Sebiha Balci