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Social Practice Theory and the Historical Production of Persons

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Title
Social Practice Theory and the Historical Production of Persons
Abstract/Description
Working collaboratively, we and others have developed a historical, material theory of social practice that integrates the study of persons, local practice , and long-term historically institutionalized struggles. We have drawn on the work of Vygotsky , Bakhtin, and Mead to develop this approach to “history-in-person”. Social Practice Theory, like Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) takes activity as a central focus. But, in contrast to CHAT, social practice theory emphasizes the historical production of persons in practice , and pays particular attention to differences among participants, and to the ongoing struggles that develop across activities around those differences. Through Holland’s ethnographic work on environmental groups in the Southeastern United States, we show the integration of emotion, motivation , and agency into cultural-historical activity theory by means of Vygotskian and Bakhtinian inspired ideas concerning “history-in-person”. Lave’s research focuses on tension , conflict and difference in participation in cultural activities in an old port wine merchant community in Porto, and looks to both local and trans-local institutional arrangements and practices for explanations.
Author/creator
Holland, Dorothy
Lave, Jean
Date
2019
In publication
Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development: Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives
Editor
Edwards, Anne
Fleer, Marilyn
Bøttcher, Louise
Series
Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research
Pages
235-248
Publisher
Springer
Resource type
en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
en Published Text
Scholarship genre
en Empirical
Keywords
activity theory
Bakhtin
British enclaves
environmentalism
history-in-person
Mead
social movements
social practice theory
Vygotsky
Language
en
Open access/full-text available
en No
Peer reviewed
en Yes
ISBN
9.78981E+12
DOI
10.1007/978-981-13-6826-4_15
URL
Official Publisher's Webpage (Springer Link)
Citation
Holland, D., & Lave, J. (2019). Social Practice Theory and the Historical Production of Persons. In A. Edwards, M. Fleer, & L. Bøttcher (Eds.), Cultural-Historical Approaches to Studying Learning and Development: Societal, Institutional and Personal Perspectives (pp. 235–248). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6826-4_15
Cited in
The Institution of Schooling
Place
Singapore
Item sets
Handbook Chapter 4 Citations

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