You are cordially invited to the first international symposium on cultural-historical psychology devoted to the topic of "Actual Problems of Cultural-historical Psychology". The event will be held on November 17-19, 2020, in Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University.
The aim of this year's event is to enlarge international connections between scientists who are interested in cultural-historical psychology.
Scientific Program is designed with the optimal mix and breadth of disciplines that might be interesting for different groups of researchers in human sciences as psychology, philosophy, methodology, sociology, culturology, language art and more.
The main areas of work of the symposium were discussed with Elena Evgenievna Kravtsova, the granddaughter of Lev Semenovich Vygotsky, who continued the family's contribution to the ideas and affairs of cultural-historical psychology. In her blessed memory, this symposium is being held.
According to L.S. Vygotsky's psychology throughout its history has been experiencing a systemic methodological crisis, breaking up again and again into opposing and confronting schools, research approaches. In the period of modern psychological science's experience of searching for new guidelines covering the methodology, subject and method of psychology, today we turn to cultural-historical psychology as a tradition that has stepped through time for almost a century.
L.S. Vygotsky had a vision of a new psychology as the science with the essential single subject and its own method. His ideas were developed in the works of his associates and followers as D.B. Elkonin, P.Y. Galperin, V.V. Davidov, E.E. Kravtsova, G.G. Kravtsov and others whose contribution lays in expanding, strengthening and deepening of the main principles and the fundamental concepts in cultural-historical psychology. Nowadays we are moving forward with that basis.
The new psychology, by the view of Vygotsky, explores analysis units of holistic psyche. In his work "Thinking and speech", in the article "Mental retardation problems" and in other works he allocated such units as age, personality, experience and other.
Continuing these researches is the aim of the modern psychology. Returning and retaining substitutions, displacements, appeared in different approaches, ideas of the personal development as the self-development by mastering your own psyche and behavior with the help of psychological tools, all of these are relevant in addressing the development of society, learning and education.
The main concept of the Cultural-historical Psychology is a personality, which is from Vygotsky's point of view makes the psychology alive science and makes unavailable to apply for natural science's methods of research. Further development of experimental-genetic (forming) methods of study depends on enlargement of methodological and methodical base of qualitative analytic methods in the psychology.
In the modern psychology of human development, we still do not have the completed picture of child's development according to main concepts of Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory. Some of characteristics of his theory tend to refinements and rethinking from the actual psychological data point of view. Fundamental concepts of cultural-historical psychology, which are caused of scientific discussions and furthermore theoretical and practical problems in psychology, are social situation of development, social interactions and learning, higher psychological processes, consciousness, meaning and significance, personality and its development, will and arbitrariness, fostering initiative and others. They have not lost their actuality nowadays.
Currently the social situation of development, in course of applying digital technology in education, learning, leads for new forms of relationships between actors of interaction. At the same time, it requires rethinking and emphasizing valuables in relation with digital environment for transform them in new conditions of development of higher psychic processes and educating subjectivity. Many scientists and specialists are connecting in interdisciplinary projects to search the new problems' solution and it becomes the most important task for human science, including the cultural-historical psychology.