[Xmca-l] Re: School versus work: Personality Changes

[Moises Esteban-Guitart]

Not strictly from an activity theory perspective, but González Rey worked
on personality (i.e., González Rey, 1999) and now he is more focused on
subjectivity from an Historical-Cultural approach. González Rey, F.,
Mitjans, A. & Goulart, D. (eds) (2019). Subjectivity within
Cultural-Historical Approach. Theory, Methodology and Research. Springer.
More than on Leontiev's work on personality, he is influenced by the
Bozhovic's group (Chudnovskii and so on). However, it seems that
personality from the seminal work of Leontyev has not further developed
from an activity theory view. Neither the kind of personality that
neoliberalism and consumerism is making of. There are lots of works on
this issue but not in Vygotskian scholars. At least I only know a few
exceptions (may be Ratner from his marco cultural approach??). However the
commuity is big and I'm sure there is relevant work on it that I have no
know unfortunately.

moises

González Rey, F. (1999). Personality, subject and human development: The
subjective character of human activity. Activity theory and social
practice: Cultural-historical approaches, 253-275.

> Vygotsky said that "The tasks that are posed for the
> maturing adolescent by the social environment - tasks that
> are associated with his entry into the cultural,
> professional, and social life of the adult world - are an
> essential functional factor in the formation of concepts,"
> and A N Leontyev, in his well-known work "Activity,
> Consciousness and Personality" clearly saw personality as
> developing throughout the subject's life, in institutions.
> Pity there are not more CHAT scholars working in that area.
>
> No accident that 'conception' means both the creation of a
> person and the forms of activity a person engages in.
>
> Andy
>
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> Andy Blunden
> http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/index.htm
> On 16/01/2019 12:38 pm, mike cole wrote:
>> I bumped into this article by accident, but it seemed
>> potentially interesting to people interested in influence
>> of institutionalized forms
>> of activity on development. Personality has not often been
>> studied in this way, and this example seemed to invite
>> CHAT conclusions.
>> Hit delete at any time!
>> mike
>>
>> --
>> Who says development is not a life long process has either
>> not lived long enough, or has lived too long.
>> Anon
>


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