Human Arenas

Human Arenas will devote a section to a critical and constructive analysis of the contemporary state of affairs of universities. Dr. Valsiner gives us an overview of the contributions in bringing forth concrete suggestions. Read his article online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Cong-Lem analyzed Vygotsky's key texts on perezhivanie and discussed the theoretical content and the methodological principles for application of the concept. Read his latest article online in the Arena of Development: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Narvekar & Ghani proposed a conceptual framework to understand how animal-assisted therapy can help improve children's social competence and their overall psychosocial functioning. Read their latest article online in the Arena of Health: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Hashemian, Mousavian Rad & Vincheh adopted Engeström's activity theory to investigate Iranian students' self-efficacy in learning English as foreign language. Their analysis identified influencing factors at ontogenetic and cultural-historical levels: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Namdiero-Walsh and colleagues compared the similarities and differences of groups in different cultural settings on the application of magical thinking practice and the underlying motives and influencing factors. Read their latest article online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Tuli, Chaudhary & Dalal investigated the socio-cultural constructions of motherhood in Northern Indian families with a focus on the dialogicality between individual and collective ideas of motherhood. Read their latest work in the Arena of Identity: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. von Fircks proposed a normative appeal character of cultural psychology grounded within the Lewinian field theory, which is compared with Boesch, Bruner and Valsiner's work. Read his latest article online in the Arena of Epistemology: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Sepúlveda & Pérez analyzed their own personal narratives to investigate the experiences of constructing indigenous identities in colonial urban spaces and positioning in academia. Read their latest work online in the Arena of Dwelling: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Based on the theoretical question of researching meta-intentionality as "wanting the other to want what I want", Indius proposed an innovative method to investigate the intra-psychological intention structures under the social and interpersonal guidance: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. von Fircks proposed to develop the third generation of organizational activity theory by complementing with the dimension of interdependence of goals and jointly negotiated cultural resources to look into the sustainable change within an organization: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Sætra referred to Vygotsky's socio-cultural theory of development to conceptualize the potential of using a specalized AI to tutor champions and promote human growth in the area of chess and Go as an example. Read his latest article online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Giani & Olivari traced the changing pathways of knowledge production in higher education system. They discussed the pro and cons of bibliometric indexes and peer-review procedures upon the revolutionary change of paradigm. Read their latest article: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Stetsenko developed Vygotsky's methodology to advance an activist-transformative methodology, through which the topic of crisis and the connection between research work and the ongoing sociopolitical struggles are discussed. Read her latest work now: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Vass & Rayner discussed and proposed Natural inclusionality as the path to cultivate new co-creative community. Natural Inclusional awareness is regarded as humanity's ultimate resource for a resurgence from crisis. Read their fantastic discussion now: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Drawing on ideological dilemmas and the kaleidoscope of common sense, Dr. Murakami, Kondo & Hong interviewed higher education teachers in China, Japan and the UK to investigate the dilemmatic nature of the teachers' views on online teaching: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Degen, Kleeberg-Niepage & Bal provided an editorial frame of individualization in the contemporary neoliberal context, which was supported by empirical examinations of the individualization process in various conditions around the world. Read online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Boman used the semi-structured interview to investigate the proculturation processes and the cultural identity of a Kazakh migrant being a psychotherapist in Sweden. Read his latest article online in the Arena of Movement: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Valério and her colleagues integrated survey and case study to investigate how music and musical instruments can play a role in the cultural resistance process in remnants of a quilombola community in the Brazilian context. Read their work online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Goulart commented on Dafermos'paper "Developing a dialectical understanding of the crisis in cultural-historical and activity research" by constructing a dialogue with González Rey's theory of subjectivity. Read his latest work online: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Dr. Dafermos analyzed the use of the concept of "crisis" in Vygotsky's project and its value for regenerating cultural-historical activity research. Read his analysis online in the Arena of Crisis: link.springer.com/article/10.100…