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Beyond Adaptation

The Unity of Personal and Social Change in Critical Psychology and Cultural-Historical Theory

Author: Márcia Aparecida Amador Mascia, Hongyan Chen, Silvia Grinberg, Michalis Kontopodis, Till Manderbach, Johanna Ruge, Peter Brook, Eileen Wengemuth and Sigga Waleng   Series: (Post-)Critical Global Childhood & Youth Studies

Beyond Adaptation
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This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines’ entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile individual support with social justice. In a rare intellectual exchange, they discuss individual minds in society and the human capacity to act.

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This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines’ entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile individual support with social justice. In a rare intellectual exchange, they discuss individual minds in society and the human capacity to act.

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This book discusses transformative approaches to psychology, social work, and education. Addressing these disciplines’ entanglements with oppressive structures, the contributors aim to reconcile individual support with social justice. In current times of accelerating crises, professionals often see only few opportunities to influence the conditions of their work. Thinking and acting beyond adaptation, authors from seven countries provide inspiration for researchers, practitioners, and students who want to be more than brokers of a broken system.

Cultural-Historical Theory is a powerful framework that can depict the dynamic of individual minds in society. Building on this, Critical Psychology has formulated an elaborate theory of human agency. Linking individual and social change needs such theorizing. This volume is a rare intellectual exchange by scholars drawing on these traditions. An alternative to both control science and abstract criticism, it inquires the capacity to act.

The editors took part in organizing the Summer School Critical Psychology in Berlin, which inspired this volume.

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Critic Reviews

This excellent work was compiled by a new generation of ingenious editors. Dialogically organized and containing chapters and commentaries by leading researchers, the book moves our focus from what happens to what is possible in developing mental life and human activity. Thoughtfully advanced and providing a fresh perspective on agency, this volume opens new ways of thinking and doing for cultural-historical and critical psychologists and beyond.Thomas TeoProfessor of Psychology,York University
This rare and important book presents contributions from the closely related critical approaches of Critical Psychology and Cultural Historical Theory in Europe and the Americas. Many chapters present research projects which throw light on ongoing changes in the social practices of research, education, social work, etc. Because the theories and projects focus on social practices and changes therein and thereof, they also offer researchers, professional practitioners and the people they serve means to comprehend such changes and to bring them about. It is, in short, a volume in support of social critique and change.Ole DreierProfessor emeritus of Psychology, University of Copenhagen

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About the Author

Till Manderbach has been working on the rehabilitation of individuals with mental health problems both in psychological counseling and as a research associate. He holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in psychology from the University of Klagenfurt, Austria.

Johanna Ruge works in the fi eld of higher education research and teacher education. Currently, she is a research associate at Heidelberg University of Education. She holds a Diploma in Psychology from the Freie Universität Berlin.

Peter Brook is a research associate at Brandenburg Medical School, Germany, where he works in psychiatry and psychotherapy research. He holds a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Psychology from the Psychological University Berlin and University of Hagen.

Eileen Wengemuth is a research associate at Brandenburg Medical School, Germany, where she works in health care research on rehabilitation. She holds a doctorate and a diploma in psychology from University of Marburg. Her doctoral research focused on critique of neuroscience.

Sigga Waleng researches punishment and exclusion in the school system as a PhD-student. She is M.Sc. and B.Sc. in psychology from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She taught seminars, supervised student projects, and runs a study circle on critical psychology(ies).

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Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Published
12th November 2024
Pages
254
ISBN
9781636676876

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