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The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children´s and adults´ symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression.

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The second edition of Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and the Arts presents an enriched Vygotskian perspective on children´s and adults´ symbolic engagement with imagination, artistic expression, and multi-modal forms of expression. Artists, psychologists, and educators present their research and practice in different learning environments and analyze their findings with a reliance on cultural historical activity theory. The connections between creative expression, learning, teaching, and development are situated in a theoretical framework that emphasizes the social origins of individual development and the arts. The authors share a view of learning as an imaginative process rooted in our common need to communicate and transform individual experience through the cultural lifelines of the arts. Vygotsky and Creativity, Second Edition includes the additional work of internationally known Vygotskian scholars whose contributions enhance theoretical, expressive, and pedagogical views on creativity, play, and the social construction of meaning making.

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List of Figures and Table - Acknowledgments - Vera John-Steiner/M. Cathrene Connery/Ana Marjanovic-Shane: Dancing with the Muses: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Play, Meaning Making, and Creativity - M. Cathrene Connery: The Historical Significance of Vygotsky´s Psychology of Art - Lois Holzman: Without Creating ZPDs There Is No Creativity - Anna Stetsenko: Agentive Creativity in All of Us: An Egalitarian Perspective from a Transformative Activist Stance - Biljana C. Fredriksen: Where Is the Body?: Understanding Children´s First Signs and Representations from Their Point of View - Patricia St. John: Crossing Scripts and Swapping Riffs: Preschoolers Make Musical Meaning - Artin Göncü: Constructing the Ensemble: Negotiating Life with(in) Play - M. Cathrene Connery: The Social Construction of a Visual Language: On Becoming a Painter - Barry Oreck/Jessica Nicoll: Dance Dialogues: Creating and Teaching in the Zone of Proximal Development - Peter Smagorinsky: The Inscription of Self in Graphic Texts in School - Seana Moran: Commitment and Creativity: Transforming Experience into Art - Beth Ferholt: A Synthetic-Analytic Method for the Study of Perezhivanie: Vygotsky´s Literary Analysis Applied to Playworlds - Michelle Zoss: Keeping Ideas and Language in Play: Teaching Drawing, Writing, and Aesthetics in a Secondary Literacy Class - Ana Marjanovic-Shane: From Yes and No to Me and You: A Playful Change in Relationships and Meanings - Larry Smolucha/Francine Smolucha: New Frontiers for Vygotsky´s Theory of Creativity: Neuropsychological Systems of Cultural Creativity - Carrie Lobman: Creating Developmental Moments: Teaching and Learning as Creative Activities - Ana Marjanovic-Shane/M. Cathrene Connery/Vera John-Steiner: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Creative Education - Contributors - Index.

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