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Andy Blunden recently published the paper “Vygotsky & the Concept of Consciousness,” which is available at http://www.ethicalpolitics.org/wits/vygotsky-consciousness.pdf and is followed by a video at http://vimeo.com/21966323

Nikolai Veresov comments this talk at http://nveresov.narod.ru/Consciousness.pdf

Second International ISCAR Summer University, 2011

Theoretical Problems of Cultural-historical Psychology in the Context of Emerging Social Practices

August, 26 – September, 1,  2011

Rowlands, M. (2010). The New Science of the Mind: From Extended Mind to Embodied Phenomenology. MIT Press
http://uploading.com/files/6med2aa7/0262014556Mind.rar/

There is a new way of thinking about the mind that does not locate mental processes exclusively "in the head." Some think that this expanded conception of the mind will be the basis of a new science of the mind. In this book, leading philosopher Mark Rowlands investigates the conceptual foundations of this new science of the mind.
Traditional attempts to study the mind are based on the idea that mental processes—perceiving, remembering, thinking, reasoning—exist in brains; they are often described as "software" realized by the "hardware" of the brain. The new way of thinking about the mind has emerged from the confluence of various disciplines in cognitive science ranging from perceptual and developmental psychology to robotics. It emphasizes the ways in which mental processes are embodied (partly made up of extra-neural bodily structures and processes), embedded (designed to function in tandem with the environment), enacted (constituted in part by action), and extended (located in the environment).

Han, S. (2011). Culture and Neural Frames of Cognition and Communication (On Thinking).
Springer.

http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/g25zvxkc4

Cultural neuroscience combines brain imaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging and event-related brain potentials with methods of social and cultural psychology to investigate whether and how cultures influence the neural mechanisms of perception, attention, emotion, social cognition, and other human cognitive processes. The findings of cultural neuroscience studies improve our understanding of the relation between human brain function and sociocultural contexts and help to reframe the “big question” of nature versus nurture. The main goal of this work is to address how thinking actually takes place and how the underlying neural mechanisms are affected by culture and identity.

Nikolai Veresov's video-lecture, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, 29th of October, 2010.
Is available here
Part 1
http://www.vimeo.com/17166233

Part 2

http://www.vimeo.com/17368749

Video was presented at "Vygotsky readings" seminar, Graduate Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, Taiwan, on 29th of October, 2010, and continues the series of Nikolai's on-line classes on cultural-historical psychology. Nikolai is talking about main concepts and principles of Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory (CHT). Core concepts of CHT are presented in their interconnections and relations to cultural development. The second part of the lecture is devoted to the problem of mediation and mediating in cultural-historical theory. It also describes general genetic law of cultural development.  The last part of the lecture is about  main principles of genetic research methodology - "What does it mean to launch experimental research according to Vygotsky's "genetic experimental method"?

Galina Dolya, (2009).Vygotsky in Action in the Early Years: The Key to Learning Curriculum. Routledge . http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/mi7q7mmpx

Wertsch, J. (1993).Voices of the Mind: Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action.
http://uploading.com/files/get/62e3955m/

Rogoff B. (2003).  «The Cultural Nature of Human Development», Oxford University Press, USA.
http://rapidshare.com/files/367282195/Rogoff_Human_Development.rar

Valsiner J (2007). "Culture in Minds and Societies: Foundations of Cultural Psychology". 2007
http://rapidshare.com/files/205672820/CultureMindsSocgPG.rar

The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology, Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Alberto Rosa.2007.
http://rapidshare.com/files/299115457/Valsiner__Rosa__eds__-_Cambridge_Handbook_of_Sociocultural_Psychology.rar

Video of Nikolai Veresov’s lecture "Problem of development in cultural-historical theory", First ISCAR Summer School, Moscow, June, 2010

Now available on YouTube.

Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp9N4pidM6g

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34AjaW2CGOw

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sAP_CZ7MkU

Part 4