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The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

Study of the brain holds promise and fascination for almost every edu- cator and parent. Recent strides in the field of neuroscience are impact- ing and changing the quality and quantity of information on the brain. Modern medical technology and…

The invitation to write this book generated the time-honoured mix of emotions, but despite some trepidation (relating most notably to time pressures and self-doubt), the challenge was irresistible. We knew the book would be timely in view of the…

It is inconceivable to me that there could be an approach to the mind, or to
human and animal adaptation, in which emotions are not a key component.
Failure to give emotion a central role puts theoretical and research psychology
out of step with…

T he study of instruction is complex, concerned as it is with contextual and substantive matters ranging as far and wide as political, economic, social and psychological processes;
administrators' and teachers' capabilities; program planning and…

“Semiotic” or “semiotics” are terms not frequently found in the HCI literature.
Search results can be taken as a rough indication of the relative scarcity of semiotic
approaches to HCI. In December 2003 a search for semiotic in the HCI…

This project was completed with a year’s Research Leave generously enabled by
the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) of the United Kingdom, and
supported by the School of Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England,…

In working with educators every day who are down in the trenches making a difference in the lives of their students, I have come to realize something that is so, so exciting. We already have in place the talent and resources to transform our…

How does one interview oneself? How does one achieve distance, reverse one's perspective, see dispassionately that which surges up from within? If, as my wife Karen says with occasional dismay, I lack ego, does that make the task easier or harder?…