Vygotsky Podcast27 Apr 2022

(S1,Ep18) A chat about CHAT (and CHT) (re-post)

(Initially posted December 2, 2020) Nikolai Veresov helps to distinguish cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) and cultural-historical theory (CHT).

Highlights include:

0:35 - What is CHAT? (Ant's confession)

1:58 - Nikolai's preference for clarification over comparison

3:39 - Veresov (2020): Two theories with many strengths

5:51 - Nikolai's appreciation and respect for CHAT

7:27 - Nikolai's concerns about CHAT

8:36 - Historical background of CHT, Activity Theory, and CHAT

15:24 - Why is this important?

19:17 - Is Nikolai alone here?

23:18 - Three coexisting theories

25:55 - Specific features of CHT and of CHAT

32:20 - Is CHAT more about systems while CHT is about individuals?

34:45 - Personality, transformation, and metamorphosis (CHAT and CHT)

38:31 - Is there a metamorphosis dynamic in CHAT?

40:44 - The concept of contradiction in CHT and in CHAT

43:41 - An example of dialectical unity (life and birth and death)

48:52 - Vygotskian application of dialectical unity (not subject-object but individual-social)

54:12 - Example: development of HPF or cultural forms of behavior?

59:36 - Mediation in CHAT and in CHT

1:04:11 - Can tools ever have more agency than individuals?

1:09:50 - Should perezhivanie make an appearance in CHAT?

1:16:49 - Is CHAT concerned with cultural or social *development*?

1:19:28 - Where is Vygotsky in CHAT?

1:21:32 - Can developmental CHT principles map onto CHAT-esque domains?

1:25:13 - Nikolai's objection Veresov (2020)

"Identity as a sociocultural phenomenon: the dialectics of belonging, being and becoming" is here: http://tiny.cc/pty5tz

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