VYGOTSKY AND CREATIVITY A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts

• Other Authors: Connery, M. Cathrene (Editor), John-Steiner, Vera 1930- (Editor), Marjanovic-Shane, Ana (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Peter Lang 2018
• Series: Educational psychology: critical pedagogical perspectives Vol. 34
• Subjects: Vygotskiĭ, L. S. > 1896-1934 > (Lev Semenovich); Creative thinking; Play > Psychological aspects; Art > Psychological aspects; Creative ability > Psychological aspects
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 The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children's and adults' symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression. Artists, psychologists, and educators present their research and practice in different learning environments and analyze their findings with a reliance on cultural historical activity theory. The connections between creative expression, learning, teaching, and development are situated in a theoretical framework that emphasizes the social origins of individual development and the arts. The authors share a view of learning as an imaginative process rooted in our common need to communicate and transform individual experience through the cultural lifelines of the arts. Vygotsky and Creativity, Second Edition includes the additional work of internationally known Vygotskian scholars whose contributions enhance theoretical, expressive, and pedagogical views on creativity, play, and the social construction of meaning making.