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27.05.2019
New book: Ordinary Things and Their Extraordinary Meanings
The book edited by Giuseppina Marsico and Luca Tateo provides a new look at the everyday relationship between psychological processes and extraordinary aspects of ordinary phenomena.
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07.05.2019
PhD Thesis by Sanna Schliewe
The thesis explores how privileged migration is experienced and negotiated in everyday encounters between expatriates and local domestic workers in India.
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07.11.2018
PhD Thesis by Jensine Ingerslev Nedergaard: Skin as a Communicative Boundary
In this PhD thesis, the researcher answers the following questions: How is it possible to understand communication and meaning-making through the skin? / How does this embodied understanding of the skin as a physical and psychological boundary hold the ability to control and/or integrate communication and meaning making? / How can we develop a new approach of educating communicative aspects in the Danish healthcare system?
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25.10.2018
New book: The Method of Imagination
The book edited by Sheldon Brown and Luca Tateo is aimed at expanding the knowledge about imaginative processes as higher mental function, by starting from the empirical and phenomenological innovative studies.
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04.10.2018
New book: An Old Melody in a New Song
This book explores the relationship between cultural psychology and aesthetics, by integrating the historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. Editor: Luca Tateo.
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04.10.2018
New book: Educational Dilemmas
Educational Dilemmas uses cultural psychology to explore the challenges, contradictions and tensions that occur during the process of education, with consideration of the effect these have at both the individual and the collective level. It argues that the focus on issues in learning overlooks a fundamental characteristic of education: that the process of educating is simultaneously both constructive and disruptive. Editor: Luca Tateo.
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04.10.2018
New book: The Emergence of Self in Educational Contexts
This book represents the first extensive introduction to the emerging construct of Educational Self. The new concept describes a specific dimension of the Self, which is elaborated in the course of a person’s school life and is reactivated anytime the person is involved in an educational activity, whether as a student, teacher or parent. Editors: Giuseppina Marsico and Luca Tateo.
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04.10.2018
New book: Sustainable Futures for Higher Education
This volume addresses the current situation in higher education and what creative action needs to be taken for the future development of the various systems of higher education. Editors: Jaan Valsiner, Anastasiia Lutsenko, and Alexandra Antoniouk.
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03.05.2018
New book: The Psychology of Radical Social Change - From Rage to Revolution
This book applies the latest social psychological theories to contextualized cases of revolutions and uprisings from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in countries around the world.
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26.04.2018
PhD Thesis by Sarah Awad: The Social Life of Urban Images
This thesis looks at visual images as psychological and political tools for social action. Social actors produce images to represent and propagate particular versions of social reality. These images are in turn interpreted, transformed, reconstructed, and destroyed by other social actors in a continuous process of negotiating social reality and the power of representing it in the public space.