University of Oulu
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1998
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind
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    It was not only Marxism which influenced Vygotsky. He was a child of the Silver Age of Russian culture and philosophy and the influence of this should not be underestimated. Some traits in Vygotsky’s theory, traditionally considered as Marxist – such as the concept of the social origins of mind or sign as psychological tool have deeper and wider roots in works of Shpet, Blonsky, Sorokin and Meierhold. As for Marxism as such, it must be mentioned that during all three periods of his creative evol…Read more
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    Perezhivanie, Emotions and Subjectivity: Advancing Vygotsky's Legacy (edited book)
    with Marilyn Fleer and Fernando González Rey
    Imprint: Springer. 2017.
    This book draws upon Vygotsky's idea of perezhivanie, emotions and imagination, and introduces the concepts of subjective sense and subjective configuration. These concepts are crucial for explaining and understanding children's development from a cultural-historical perspective. A book which theorises the relations between the social and the individual through a study of a child's perezhivanie, which analyses emotions more holistically, and advances the concepts of subjective sense and subjecti…Read more
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    Do Children Need Adult Support During Sociodramatic Play to Develop Executive Functions? Experimental Evidence
    with Aleksander Veraksa, Margarita Gavrilova, and Vera Sukhikh
    Frontiers in Psychology 12. 2021.
    The cultural-historical approach provides the deep theoretical grounds for the analysis of children’s play. Vygotsky suggested three critical features of play: switching to an imaginary situation, taking on a play role, and acting according to a set of rules defined by the role. Collaboration, finding ideas and materials for creating an imaginary situation, defining play roles, and planning the plot are complex tasks for children. However, the question is, do children need educator’s support dur…Read more
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    The Group as a Source of Development: Rethinking Professional Development in a Collaborative Perspective
    with Fabiana Marques Barbosa Nasciutti and Ana Maria Falcão de Aragão
    Outlines. Critical Practice Studies 17 (1): 86-108. 2016.
    Since the later decades of the 20 th century, Brazilian psychologists have been questioning a theoretical and interventional model in educational contexts, which consider psychological phenomena apart from their cultural contexts, in order to develop an approach based on a contextualized viewpoint. Despite progress having been made in educational psychology, as a result of this critical paradigm, this area still has problems to overcome: Psychologists are becoming increasingly separate from scho…Read more