[Xmca-l] Re: Leontyev's activities

[mike cole]

Very Brave of you to respond to Sukanta, Huw.
Very daunting question, Sukanta.

There is a special issue of the journal, Mind, Culture, and Activity theory
a couple
of years ago that is devoted to the study of Kurt Lewin's action theory and
the
socio-cultural-historical school. This is a contemporary topic of concern.

Do you have access to the journal?
mike


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Huw Lloyd <huw.softdesigns@gmail.com>wrote:

> Activity theory implicates a holistic developmental paradigm frequently
> focused upon the social genesis of mind.  Cognitive psychology is an
> umbrella term that typically implicates a much weaker "present competence"
> paradigm and simpler set of practices, principally attending to
> individual's "processing" in relation to objects of interest, that are
> typically ignorant of the profound issues addressed in activity theory.
>  However, if you wanted to you could situate activity theory within
> cognitive psychology as it is concerned with the genesis of
> cognition<http://www.marxists.org/archive/luria/works/1976/problem.htm
> >(which
> cognitive psychology typically is not).
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> If you do the reading I think you'll find that there are no "basic
> differences" that would be worth bothering with.  You are better off asking
> "What are the assumptions of these theories and what do they set out to
> do."
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> Huw
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> On 13 October 2013 07:21, Sukanta Majumdar <sukantamajumdar@aim.com>
> wrote:
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> > Hello
> > Will anybody in this group kindly tell me what is the basic difference
> > among Activity theory, Cognitive Psychology and K.L. Lewin's Field
> Theory?
> > I am not from Psychology background, but interested to learn about these
> > for human activity purposes.
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> > Sukanta Majumdar, PhD
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