Doing CHAT in the Wild : : From-the-Field Challenges of a Non-Dualist Methodology / / volume edited by Patricia Dionne and Alfredo Jornet.

• Superior document: Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2022
• TeilnehmendeR: Dionne, Patricia,; Jornet, Alfredo,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2022.; Practice of Research Method ; 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 pages) :; illustrations.

Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and other Vygotskian approaches are becoming increasingly popular among social scientists interested in studying human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts. Building on non-dualist, dialectical materialist epistemological premises, these approaches, however, can pose important challenges to the scholar and the student aiming at first adopting them in their research. What are the concrete, method-related implications of CHAT perspectives for the way we do research in the field? Showcasing the work of well-established as well as emerging CHAT scholars, this volume presents from-the-field insights of non-dualist CHAT methodology for both newcomers and the initiated. Contributors are: Sylvie Barma, Michael Cole, Patricia Dionne, Philip Dupuis-Laflamme, Ritva Engeström, Beth Ferholt, Alfredo Jornet, Isabelle Rioux, Frédéric Saussez, Christopher Schuck, Anna Stetsenko, Marie-Caroline Vincent and Samantha Voyer.

Table of Contents

From-the-field challenges of a non-dualist methodology / Patricia Dionne and Alfredo Jornet -- Knowledge production as a process of making mis/takes, at the edge of uncertainty : research as an activist, risky, and personal quest / Anna Stetsenko -- Agency and activity of students from non-dominant groups : methodological and ethical issues / Isabelle Rioux and Patricia Dionne -- The constant or person-as-place, and research-life : sustaining collaboration between university-based and field-based co-researchers / Beth Ferholt and Chris Schuck -- Dialogical epistemology as a resource of CHAT methodology in the close interaction of science and society / Ritva Engeström -- Dialectical analysis of learning and development through career counselling groups : the challenge of emotions / Patricia Dionne -- Decision-forming processes leading to peer mentorship / Sylvie Barma, Marie-Caroline Vincent and Samantha Voyer -- On the relevance of the concept of zone of proximal development for problematizing qestions about development in adulthood and freedom in developmental intervention / Frederic Saussez and Philip Dupuis-Laflamme -- Studying with/out an object : participant observation in CHAT / Alfredo Jornet -- Conclusion : a reflection on CHAT's history and direction : interview with Michael Cole / Patricia Dionne and Alfredo Jornet.