Latin American Advances in Subjectivity and Development: Through the Vygotsky Route

This is the first book in English to show how the work of Lev Vygotsky gave rise to a prolific and original school of cultural-historical psychology in Latin America. In recent decades, Latin American researchers have expanded Vygotskyan conceptualizations and applied practical theory to psychological and educational research and practice, but until now this production remained virtually unknown for English speaking audiences since it has been mainly published in Spanish and Portuguese. This timely volume contributes to change this situation by presenting a panoramic picture of the state of the art of cultural-historical psychology in Latin America. The book is divided in two parts. The first part shows how Latin American researchers used Vygotsky’s work to develop new theoretical elaborations and empirical advances to deal with different political, social and cultural problems in the region. The second part presents an overview of the current stateof cultural-historical psychology in Latin America. Throughout its 15 chapters, the book shows how Latin American researchers contributed to the studies of different aspects of the cultural-historical theoretical conception of the development of higher psychological functions, such as concept formation, inner speech, zone of proximal development and imagination, and how these theoretical elaborations have been applied to research and practice in fields such as sociocultural psychology, developmental psychology, psychotherapy and education in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Puerto Rico.Latin American Advances in Subjectivity and Development - Through the Vygotsky Route will be an invaluable resource to researchers, students and practitioners in the fields of psychology, education and other social sciences interested in discovering or learning more about the original Latin American school of cultural-historical psychology.

About the Author

Pablo Fossa is a professor and researcher at the School of Psychology of the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He received his PhD degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. His dissertation was about the expressive dimension of the inner language in human experience. His research lines are related to the history of psychology, language and cognition, cultural psychology and relational processes. He is an active member of the Society for Historical Cultural Activity Research (ISCAR), International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) and the International Society for Dialogical Self (ISDS). Nowadays, he has a Postdoctoral Project about thought trajectories from a microgenetic perspective supported by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) of Chile.