Psychology

An emerging interest in group guidance, collective forms, and integrative approaches is evident in Denmark and serves to contest a conventional individualistic mode of delivery. The latter being criticised for being both resource heavy and in risk of contributing to …

Excavating the mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current developments …

In the future an increasing number of people in the Western world can expect to live a long life, and the proportion of elderly people in the population will increase significantly as well. But until now development psychology has focused …

This book articulates a qualitative stance, drawing inspiration from the Danish psychologist Steinar Kvale's work. The qualitative stance involves a point of departure where the social world is described before theorized, understood before explained, and seen as concrete qualities rather …

New book provides insight into the young generations relations and experiences with pornography. Generation P? is based on a unique and comprehensive study giving voice to the words and opinions of the young people themselves.Never before have pornography and sexualized …

This book presents an investigation of how shift work is organized in various European countries. The important role of the participatory bodies is discussed, vis-à-vis the prevention of shift-work related problems. The results of the investigation reveal that while systematic …

Gunnar Hjelholt (1920-2002) described himself as an "Applied Social Psychologist" and was one of the pioneers in the development of European group dynamics. In Denmark he was both a mentor and a source of inspiration for a whole generation of organisational psychologists. Working on …

THE LIBERTINES NATURE is a book about the infamous Marquis de Sade. His works teem with uninhibited libertines who ruthlessly take advantage of others. The will to excess is also in evidence when the libertines raise the torch of philosophy …

Radical-Local Teaching and Learning presents a theoretical perspective for analyzing and planning educational programmes for schoolchildren.   The radical-local approach provides an integrated perspective for confronting the tension that arises between a universal goal to prepare all children for a …

Through the contributions of anthropologists, philosophers, and psychologists, Activity Theory and Social Practice demonstrates the potential of a multidisciplinary approach for the study of activity. Originally a psychological tradition, starting with the work of Lev S. Vygotsky and his collegues …

Learning and Child Development addresses all who have an interest in child psychology as well as in education from a cultural-historical perspective. The focus is on the relation between school teaching and the development of children's  interest in and reflection about the …

Using Vygotsky's ideas, this book contributes to the cultural-historical study of school children's learning. The focus is not only on activities within the classroom but on the importance of various extraneous conditions, for example educational ideology that can influence both …

This volume offers a selection of theoretical views and empirical investigations by researchers in Europe, South America, and North America. The theoretical chapters seek to clarify and extend central concepts of the cultural-historical tradition, such as activity, internalisation, and personality. …

The idea that children's learning is influenced by economic, political, ecological, cultural and other influences is being focused upon by educators world-wide. Cultural-historical theory, which has developed into learning activity theory, is not a new idea, but has its roots …