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.
- Date
- 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
- 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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