{"product_id":"vygotsky-and-creativity-9781433130595","title":"Vygotsky and Creativity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second edition of \u003cem\u003eVygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts \u003c\/em\u003epresents 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. \u003cem\u003eVygotsky and Creativity, Second Edition\u003c\/em\u003e includes the additional work of internationally known Vygotskian scholars whose contr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Figures and Table – Acknowledgments – Vera John-Steiner\/M. Cathrene Connery\/Ana Marjanovic-Shane: Dancing with the Muses: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and Creativity – M. Cathrene Connery: The Historical Significance of Vygotsky’s\u003ci\u003e Psychology of Art \u003c\/i\u003e– Lois Holzman: Without Creating ZPDs There Is No Creativity – Anna Stetsenko: Agentive Creativity in All of Us: An Egalitarian Perspective from a Transformative Activist Stance – Biljana C. Fredriksen: Where Is the Body?: Understanding Children’s First Signs and Representations from Their Point of View – Patricia St. John: Crossing Scripts and Swapping Riffs: Preschoolers Make Musical Meaning – Artin Göncü: Constructing the Ensemble: Negotiating Life with(in) Play – M. Cathrene Connery: The Social Construction of a Visual Language: On Becoming a Painter – Barry Oreck\/Jessica Nicoll: Dance Dialogues: Creating and Teaching in the Zone of Proximal Development – Peter Smagorinsky: The Inscription of Self in Graphic Texts in School – Seana Moran: Commitment and Creativity: Transforming Experience into Art – Beth Ferholt: A Synthetic-Analytic Method for the Study of Perezhivanie: Vygotsky’s Literary Analysis Applied to Playworlds – Michelle Zoss: Keeping Ideas and Language in Play: Teaching Drawing, Writing, and Aesthetics in a Secondary Literacy Class – Ana Marjanovic-Shane: From Yes and No to Me and You: A Playful Change in Relationships and Meanings – Larry Smolucha\/Francine Smolucha: New Frontiers for Vygotsky’s Theory of Creativity: Neuropsychological Systems of Cultural Creativity – Carrie Lobman: Creating Developmental Moments: Teaching and Learning as Creative Activities – Ana Marjanovic-Shane\/M. Cathrene Connery\/Vera John-Steiner: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Creative Education – Contributors – Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039588811095,"sku":"9781433130595","price":46.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433130595.jpg?v=1750944189","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vygotsky-and-creativity-9781433130595","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}