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Review: Paul Downes (2020): Reconstructing Agency in Developmental and Educational Psychology - Inclusive Systems as Concentric Space

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Nielsen, Birgitte Lund

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Downes, Paul: Reconstructing agency in developmental and educational psychology: inclusive systems as concentric space. New York: Routledge 2020. 978-1-315-10108-8

Abstract

The author describes the goal of this impressive work as the reconstruction of the foundations of developmental and educational psychology that fills in an important gap by arguing for a spatial turn. He proposes an innovative framework of agency seen as a movement between concentric and diametric s... view more

The author describes the goal of this impressive work as the reconstruction of the foundations of developmental and educational psychology that fills in an important gap by arguing for a spatial turn. He proposes an innovative framework of agency seen as a movement between concentric and diametric spatial relations for a reconstruction of resilience. I present an overview of the structure and the content of the book followed by discussing in more detail the four themes: 1. key problems of agency, 2. the emotional-relational turn, 3. Vygotsky and the question about cultural conformity, and 4. the proposed spatial ecological systems framework, as both a domain of study and a methodology. In the discussion, I add perspectives from the field of teacher education and professional learning and agency.... view less


Ziel der beindruckenden Arbeit ist die Rekonstruktion der Grundlagen der Entwicklungspsychologie, wobei er eine Lücke in Richtung eines räumlichen Turn schließt. Er schlägt eine innovative Konzeption von Agency vor, verstanden als Bewegung zwischen konzentrischen und diametrischen räumlichen Beziehu... view more

Ziel der beindruckenden Arbeit ist die Rekonstruktion der Grundlagen der Entwicklungspsychologie, wobei er eine Lücke in Richtung eines räumlichen Turn schließt. Er schlägt eine innovative Konzeption von Agency vor, verstanden als Bewegung zwischen konzentrischen und diametrischen räumlichen Beziehungen in Richtung einer Rekonstruktion von Resilienz. Ich stelle zunächst Struktur und Inhalt des Buches vor und diskutiere dann vier Themen eingehender: 1. Schlüsselprobleme von Agency, 2. den emotional-relationalen Turn, 3. Vygotsky und die Frage nach kultureller Konformität und 4. das von Downes vorgeschlagene räumlich-ökologische System in seiner Relevanz für Forschung und für Methodologie. Dabei greife ich auf Perspektiven aus den Bereichen Lehrer*innenausbildung sowie professionelles Lernen und Agency zurück.... view less

Classification
Developmental Psychology

Free Keywords
Agency; Phänomenologie; Räumlichkeit; agency; concentric space; emotional-relational turn; emotional-relationaler Turn; konzentrische Räume; phenomenology; spatial systems; transitions; Übergang

Document language
English

Publication Year
2020

Page/Pages
10 p.

Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 21 (2020) 2

ISSN
1438-5627

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0


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