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    Authors' Response: From 20th- Century Dialectics and Deconstruction to 21st-Century Transformative Monism
    with Anna Shvarts
    Constructivist Foundations 18 (2): 253-258. 2023.
    n our response, we provide theoretical clarifications on how the functional dynamic systems approach allows a monist theorization of offline cognition and imagination; highlight the importance, for ontogenetic cultural development, of the system’s sensorimotor dynamics as well as this dynamics’ reification; elaborate on the notions of “field of promoted action,” “zone of proximal development,” “scaffolding,” and “repetition without repetition” as well as purported relations among these notions. …Read more
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    Context: Radical embodied approaches to cognition propose a drastic alternative to representation-based models of the mind by way of theorizing and empirically demonstrating the constitutive roles of perception-action loops in human behavior. However, applying those approaches to higher-order processes - such as mathematical thinking and learning - remains one of the hottest debates within contemporary cognitive science. Problem: How might a radical embodied perspective theoretically explain sem…Read more
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    Almost in Our Grasp: The (Slow) Digital Return of Multimodal Educational Resources
    Constructivist Foundations 18 (2): 202-206. 2023.
    Whereas I empathize with Penny’s grave concern over current modalist instructional technology - “modalist” in the sense of privileging one modality, predominantly vision, at the expense of all others - I do not quite share his bleak assessment of future offerings. Following some hopefully inspiring words from historical philosophers of education, I showcase the Quad, a haptic-tactile mechatronic device built by three US-based laboratories collaborating to create modally expansive learning tools …Read more
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    Welcoming their scholarly focus on metaphorizing, I critique Díaz-Rojas, Soto-Andrade and Videla-Reyes’s selection of the hypothetical constructs “conceptual metaphor” and “enactive …
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    Touchscreen Tablets: Coordinating Action and Perception for Mathematical Cognition
    with Carolien A. C. G. Duijzer, Shakila Shayan, Arthur Bakker, and Marieke F. Van der Schaaf
    Frontiers in Psychology 8. 2017.