Transforming theory for a transforming world: An essay in review of Anna Stetsenko’s The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education

Chik Collins; Peter E. Jones; Marjorie McCrory

doi:10.3828/ts.2020.8

Transforming theory for a transforming world: An essay in review of Anna Stetsenko’s The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education

Chik Collins, Peter E. Jones, Marjorie McCrory

Fróðskaparsetur Føroya - The University of the Faroe Islands

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Critical social science has long struggled adequately to theorise social change and transformation. Today, however, the questions of the moment are perhaps more clearly than ever all about those things. In this gap arise profound challenges – both theoretical and political. Anna Stetsenko's The Transformative Mind (2017) offers a major contribution to the reorientation of critical social science – providing foundations which ground and catalyse our urges to make our humanity in the struggle to create new forms of social relating, worthy of our human nature.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	58-67
Number of pages	10
Journal	Theory and Struggle
Volume	121
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3828/ts.2020.8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2020

Keywords

critical social science
Vygotsky
Stetsenko
Marxism
transformative activist stance

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Collins, C. (PI), Stuart, F. (CoI), Livingstone, J. (CoI) & Pautz, H. (CoI)
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The “Tremendous Social Force” of Language: The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In and Heath’s U-Turn
Collins, C., Nov 2021, In: Scottish Labour History. 56, p. 59-76 18 p., 1.
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Social theory and health inequalities: Critical realism or a transformative activist stance?
Collins, C., McCrory, M., McCartney, G. & Mackenzie, M., 1 Aug 2015, In: Social Theory & Health. 13, 3, p. 377-396 20 p.
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Reflections on CHAT and Freire's Participatory Action Research From the West of Scotland: Praxis, Politics, and the "Struggle For Meaningful Life"
Collins, C., 2011, In: Mind, Culture and Activity. 18, 2, p. 98-114 17 p.
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Transforming theory for a transforming world: An essay in review of Anna Stetsenko’s The Transformative Mind: Expanding Vygotsky's Approach to Development and Education

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The University of the West of Scotland-Oxfam Partnership - 'for a more equitable and sustainable Scotland'.

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The “Tremendous Social Force” of Language: The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In and Heath’s U-Turn

Social theory and health inequalities: Critical realism or a transformative activist stance?

Reflections on CHAT and Freire's Participatory Action Research From the West of Scotland: Praxis, Politics, and the "Struggle For Meaningful Life"

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