James Wertsch
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- PhD Psychology University of California, San Diego
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, San Diego
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James V. Wertsch is the David R. Francis Distinguished Professor and Director Emeritus of the McDonnell International Scholars Academy at Washington University in St. Louis. Education and career Wertsch received an A.B. in psychology from University of Illinois, Urbana in 1969, an M.A.T. in education from Northwestern University in 1971, and a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Chicago in 1975. After finishing his Ph.D, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the USSR Academy of Sciences and Moscow State University, where he studied with the neuropsychologist Alexander R. Luria.
James Wertsch's Published Works
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Published Works
- Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action (1992) (3801)
- Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind (1985) (3618)
- Mind as action (1998) (2130)
- The Concept of Activity in Soviet Psychology (1981) (1643)
- Culture, communication, and cognition : Vygotskian perspectives (1987) (1302)
- The Cambridge Companion to Vygotsky (2007) (744)
- Voices of Collective Remembering (2002) (733)
- From Social Interaction to Higher Psychological Processes. A Clarification and Application of Vygotsky’s Theory (1979) (686)
- The zone of proximal development: Some conceptual issues† (1984) (604)
- Beyond the Individual-Social Antinomy in Discussions of Piaget and Vygotsky (1996) (539)
- Constructivism in Education (2000) (480)
- Children's Learning in the Zone of Proximal Development (1984) (466)
- A sociocultural approach to socially shared cognition (1991) (462)
- Sociocultural studies of mind: Human action: historical and theoretical foundations (1995) (449)
- Vygotsky and identity formation: A sociocultural approach. (1995) (447)
- L. S. Vygotsky and Contemporary Developmental Psychology. (1992) (360)
- Sociocultural studies of mind: Sociocultural studies: history, action, and mediation (1995) (327)
- Sociocultural studies of mind: The need for action in sociocultural research (1995) (300)
- The Adult-Child Dyad as a Problem-solving System. (1980) (296)
- Discourse and Learning in the Classroom: A Sociocultural Approach (1995) (272)
- Vygotsky y la formación social de la mente (1988) (258)
- The creation of context in joint problem-solving. (1984) (241)
- Collective memory: Conceptual foundations and theoretical approaches (2008) (226)
- Vygotsky and education: The voice of rationality in a sociocultural approach to mind (1990) (223)
- The primacy of mediated action in sociocultural studies. (2009) (203)
- The Narrative Organization of Collective Memory (2008) (184)
- Collective remembering (2009) (169)
- Creating a new discipline of memory studies (2008) (163)
- The Authority of Cultural Tools in a Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Agency (1993) (136)
- Narrative Tools of History and Identity (1997) (135)
- Collective Memory and Narrative Templates (2014) (121)
- From Social Interaction to Higher Psychological Processes (2008) (120)
- The significance of dialogue in Vygotsky's account of social, egocentric, and inner speech (1980) (112)
- Problem solving in social interaction: A microgenetic analysis. (1987) (101)
- Linking Little Narratives to Big Ones: Narrative and Public Memory in History Museums (2002) (98)
- Vygotsky on Learning and Development (1995) (94)
- A Social Interactional Analysis of Learning Disabilities Remediation (1984) (90)
- Sociocultural Approaches toCognitive Development: The Constitutions of Culture in Mind (2001) (88)
- Narratives as Cultural Tools in Sociocultural Analysis: Official History in Soviet and Post‐Soviet Russia (2000) (85)
- Specific Narratives and Schematic Narrative Templates (2009) (83)
- Computer Mediation, PBL, and Dialogicality (2002) (83)
- Sociocultural Research in the Copyright Age (1995) (79)
- Communication: An Arena of Development (1999) (74)
- Memory in Mind and Culture: List of Contributors (2009) (71)
- Official and Unofficial Histories: The Case of Estonia (1994) (58)
- Language and Cognition (1982) (52)
- A sociocultural approach to intellectual development. (1992) (50)
- Blank Spots in Collective Memory: A Case Study of Russia (2008) (49)
- Saying More than You Know in Instructional Settings (2011) (49)
- Multivoicedness in Historical Representation: American College Students' Accounts of the Origins of the United States (1994) (49)
- The russian revolution: official and unofficial accounts (2001) (46)
- Dialogue and dialogism in a socio-cultural approach to mind. (1990) (46)
- Memory in Mind and Culture: Collective Memory (2009) (46)
- The Architecture and Dynamics of Intersubjectivity in Science Classrooms (2003) (45)
- The Semiotic Mediation of Mental Life: L. S. Vygotsky and M. M. Bakhtin (1985) (44)
- Spinning the past: Russian and Georgian accounts of the war of August 2008 (2009) (43)
- An Interesting Resemblance: Vygotsky, Mead, and American Pragmatism (2007) (39)
- The Development of Children’s Conceptual Relation to the World, with Focus on Concept Formation in Preschool Children's Activity (2007) (39)
- Dynamics of Negation in the Identity Politics of Cultural Other and Cultural Self (1995) (36)
- Grounding Social Identity for Professional Practice (2004) (36)
- Vygotsky's Model of Cognitive Development (2007) (33)
- Psycholinguistics 2: Structures and Processes (1980) (32)
- Enough! : the Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia 2003 (2005) (32)
- Contextualizing the Investigator: The Case of Developmental Psychology (1987) (30)
- Historical representation as mediated action: official history as a tool (2001) (30)
- The Role of Semiosis in L. S. Vygotsky’s Theory of Human Cognition (1983) (28)
- Context Dependent Properties of Teachers’ Speech (1976) (28)
- The Role of Narratives in Commemoration: Remembering as Mediated Action (2011) (25)
- Beyond the archival model of memory and the affordances and constraints of narratives (2011) (24)
- Terminology in L. S. Vygotsky’s Writings (2007) (24)
- L. S. Vygotsky: Mind in Society. The Development of Higher Psychological Processes@@@Recent Trends in Soviet Psycholinguistics (1979) (24)
- Semiotic mechanisms in joint cognitive activity (1989) (24)
- Texts of Memory and Texts of History (2012) (23)
- Contemporary Implications of Vygotsky and Luria (1995) (23)
- Struggling with the past: some dynamics of historical representation (1994) (21)
- Narrative Tools and the Construction of Identity (2012) (20)
- Vygotsky and Recent Developments (2010) (20)
- The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology: Collective Memory (2007) (19)
- Competing national memories of World War II (2019) (19)
- Commentary on: deliberation with computers: exploring the distinctive contribution of new technologies to collaborative thinking and learning (2003) (18)
- Revising Russian History (1999) (17)
- A Sociocultural Approach To Mind: Some Theoretical Considerations (1989) (16)
- Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky and contemporary developmental psychology. (1994) (16)
- Georgia as a Laboratory for Democracy (2005) (16)
- National narratives and the conservative nature of collective memory (2007) (16)
- Sociocultural psychology: Voices of thinking and speaking (1995) (15)
- A Clash of Deep Memories (2008) (15)
- INTERSUBJECTIVITY THROUGH THE MASTERY OF SEMIOTIC MEANS IN TEACHER-STUDENT DISCOURSE (2005) (13)
- Deep Memory and Narrative Templates: Conservative Forces in Collective Memory (2012) (13)
- Collective Memories across 11 Nations for World War II: Similarities and Differences Regarding the Most Important Events (2019) (12)
- National memory and where to find it (2018) (10)
- The role of abstract rationality in Vygotsky's image of mind (2013) (10)
- Trends in Soviet cognitive psychology. (1981) (10)
- Properties of Mediated Action (1997) (8)
- Jerome Bruner: Reflections of a Developmental Psychologist (2008) (8)
- Georgia after the Rose Revolution (2006) (8)
- Mediated action and the study of communication: The lessons of L. S. Vygotsky and M. M. Bakhtin (1995) (8)
- Cole’s ‘Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Developmental Consequences of Education’ (2005) (8)
- Postscript on Bakhtin's Dialogic Pedagogy (2004) (8)
- Mnemonic communities and confl ict: Georgia’s national narrative template (2011) (7)
- Keys to cultural psychology (1992) (7)
- Collective Memory: How Groups Remember Their Past (2018) (7)
- Freedom and Constraint in Human Action (2011) (7)
- Basil Bernstein, Pedagogy, symbolic control and identity: Theory, research, critique . London (UK) & Bristol (PA): Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xiv, 216. Hb £40.00, Pb £14.95. (1998) (6)
- The multiple levels of analysis in a theory of action. (1984) (6)
- Standard and Nonstandard Dialect Competencies of Hawaiian Creole English Speakers (1977) (6)
- Towards a Vygotskian Theory of the Self (1983) (6)
- Beyond a transmission model of communication (1991) (6)
- How Nations Remember (6)
- Gal’perin’s Elaboration of Vygotsky (2000) (6)
- Recent trends in Soviet psycholinguistics (1976) (6)
- The fragmentation of discourse in the nuclear arms debate (1988) (6)
- PSYCHOLOGY: L. S. Vygotsky's "New" Theory of Mind (2016) (6)
- A Meeting of Paradigms: Vygotsky and Psychoanalysis (1990) (6)
- Consuming Nationalism (1997) (5)
- Voices of the Mind (1993) (5)
- Introduction To a Special Issue of Cultural Dynamics Devoted To "Sociocultural Approaches To Mind" (1989) (5)
- The influence of listener perception of the speaker on recognition memory (1975) (5)
- : The Legacy of the Siege of Leningrad, 19411995: Myths, Memories, and Monuments (2008) (4)
- Russian Psychology: A Critical History. David Joravsky (1992) (4)
- INTRODUCTION: "Ragnar Rommetveit: His Work and Influence" (2003) (4)
- Narrative Tools, Truth, and Fast Thinking in National Memory: A Mnemonic Standoff between Russia and the West over Ukraine (2018) (4)
- The Big IdeaPast imperfect (2015) (3)
- Communication: An Arena of Development. Advances in Applied Developmental Psychology, Volume 19. (2000) (3)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: Conclusion (2002) (3)
- Vygotsky's Classic. (1987) (3)
- Putting Persons and Culture Back Together@@@Voices of the Mind: A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action@@@Thinking through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology (1992) (2)
- National Narratives (2)
- Introduction: Historical Representation (1994) (2)
- Appropriation and Resistance (1997) (2)
- Doing Diversity in Higher Education for International Students (2016) (2)
- Foreword to the special feature 'Negotiating the nation: Young people, national narratives and history education', edited by Jocelyn Létourneau and Arthur Chapman (2017) (2)
- Memory in Mind and Culture: HOW DO WE BUILD SHARED COLLECTIVE MEMORIES? (2009) (2)
- How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach (2021) (2)
- Tamara Dembo and Her Work (1993) (2)
- Inner Speech Revisited. (1977) (2)
- Responses to the Commentaries (2011) (2)
- Mediated Action in Social Space (1997) (2)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: Collective Memory: A Term in Search of a Meaning (2002) (2)
- Sociocultural Issues in Soviet Psychological Research (1994) (2)
- Book review symposium: The Collective Memory Reader (2014) (2)
- Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture (Roundtable of the methodological seminar supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin) (2018) (1)
- Ragnar Rommetveit: His Work and Influence (2019) (1)
- Dynamic Testing as the Future of Mental Assessment. (2004) (1)
- David R. Olson, The world on paper: The conceptual and cognitive implications of reading and writing . Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 318. Hb $24.95. (1996) (1)
- Discourse in the Adult Classroom: Rhetoric as Technology for Dialogue (1997) (1)
- A psychologist in the u.s.s.R. (1980) (1)
- 2.48 – Collective Memory (2008) (1)
- National Narratives as Habits of Thought (2019) (1)
- Filling in the Blank Spots in History: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Russian Collective Memory (2003) (1)
- Engagement in supporting new teachers: a role for computer-mediated communication in teacher learning within informal professional communities (2006) (1)
- Cosmopolitan patriot: The life and scholarship of Peeter Tulviste (1945–2017) (2020) (1)
- Generational Differences in Collective Remembering (2002) (1)
- State Production of Official Historical Narratives (2002) (1)
- The Task of Sociocultural Analysis (1997) (0)
- Persons and Selves: A Psychology of the Individual. (1986) (0)
- The Trajectory of Jaan Valsiner’s Thought (2021) (0)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: Narrative Dialogicality and Narrative Templates in the Production of Official Collective Memory (2002) (0)
- A Foundation, But Can We Use It? (2009) (0)
- Methodological Preliminaries to the Study of Collective Remembering (2002) (0)
- Cognitive anthropology reviewed. (1996) (0)
- Managing National Memory (2021) (0)
- Guest Editor's Introduction (2008) (0)
- Selectivity and Emplotment in National Memory (2021) (0)
- Life lessons from Vladimir Petrovich Zinchenko (2020) (0)
- Narrative Dialogism in National Memory (0)
- Adam Lewis Putnam! Curriculum Vitae! (2014) (0)
- [Book Review: Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline Michael Cole] (1998) (0)
- Neurophysiology and Psychology: What We Can Learn From the Soviets. (1980) (0)
- Soviet Perspectives on American Social Psychology (1980) (0)
- Habits of collective memory. (2022) (0)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: An Encounter with Collective Memory (2002) (0)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: The Consumption of Historical Narratives (2002) (0)
- Vygotskian Reformulation of Whitman's Thesis on Self-Regulation. (1990) (0)
- Different Memories, Different Worlds (2021) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 37, 1994 (1994) (0)
- “Taking into account the peculiarities of national narratives should help politicians to better understand their interlocutors in the negotiations”. Interview with James V. Wertsch (2018) (0)
- Rogoff The constitution of the subjeit : a persistent question (0)
- Voices of Collective Remembering: Introduction and Acknowledgments (2002) (0)
- Themes for future research on memory, mind and media (2022) (0)
- A New Look at Society and Personality: Sociogenesis and Duality. (2000) (0)
- SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO MEDIATED ACTION：AN ANALYSIS OF CLASSROOM DISCOURSE (1991) (0)
- National Memory for Hiroshima: Russia versus the U. S. (2019) (0)
- The Individual‐Society Antinomy Revisited (2018) (0)
- Deep Memory and Narrative Templates (2011) (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 38, 1995 (1995) (0)
- Forgetting Bin Laden (2012) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2000) (0)
- The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis; Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past by Sam Wineburg (2003) (0)
- A. N. Leont'ev and Soviet Psychology: An Introduction (1984) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2002) (0)
- Agency or Reproduction? (2019) (0)
- Impressions of Alexander Romanovich Luria (2022) (0)
- Private Speech, Executive Functioning, and the Development of Verbal Self-Regulation: Afterword (2009) (0)
- Aberdeen, Fairmont and Lakota Campus New Library Materials List June 2011 REFERENCE (2011) (0)
- Narrative as a Cultural Tool for Representing the Past (1997) (0)
- Acknowledgment (2003) (0)
- A Conceptual Tool Kit (2021) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2001) (0)
- Lotman and memory studies (2021) (0)
- Editor's Introduction (2000) (0)
- Endangered Scholars Worldwide (2014) (0)
- Contents, Vol. 38, 1995 (1995) (0)
- Conflicted Pasts and National Identities: Narratives of War and Conflict (2014) (0)
- Ragnar Rommetveit: A full life (2020) (0)
- Analysis of Syntactic and Semantic Elements Found in the Classroom Speech of Teachers. (1972) (0)
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