OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Mind Culture and Activity is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A cultural-historical study of emotions in play: catharsis and perezhivanie in an institutional care setting	29
A Political Psychology Approach to Militancy and Prefigurative Activism: The Case of Brazil	25
The first stages of schooling: contributions from Vygotsky’s last works	13
Vygotsky and the notion of perezhivanie: what does it contribute to the reading of literary texts?	12
Correction	11
Editorial Volume 29, Issue 4	10
Is domestic labor productive labor: an inquiry based on historical materialism	8
Organizing for material possibility in a community-led science program	7
Editorial vol. 30 issue 1	6
Resituating situated learning within racialized and colonial social relations	6
Youth as philosophers of technology	5
“The village that learns”: a learning journey across intraventions and domains over two decades in a rural Thai community	5
Understanding the place of pedology amongst scientific disciplines to better understand what pedology is	5
Editorial: at the intersection of multiple research fields	4
Developing Concepts of Development: Vygotsky’s pédologie. Introduction to the Special Issue	4
Social and professional integration processes of refugees participating in community-based groups: restoring a deteriorated social fabric	4
Marginality in inquiry-based science learning contexts: the role of exclusion cascades	3
Not just mechanical birthing bodies: articulating the impact of imbalanced power relationships in the birth arena on women’s subjectivity, agency, and consciousness	3
Learning to make noise: toward a process model of artistic practice within experimental music scenes	3
Public characters: the politics of reputation and blame	2
“They were learning from us as we were learning from them”: perceived experiences in co-design process	2
Constructive activity and expansion of the object: cross-fertilization between activity theories	2
Agency, activity, and biocybernetics: On The Evolution of Agency by Michael Tomasello	2
Weaving together the past, present and future in whole class conversations: analyzing the emergence of a hybrid educational chronotope connecting everyday experiences and school science	2
Creative spaces in and beyond education	2

Taking children and young people seriously: a caring relational approach to education	1
Towards gentle futures: co-developing axiological commitments and alliances among humans and the greater living world at school	1
A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity	1
Living ‘poor’, learning ‘well’: Dewey’s pragmatic transactional approach for rethinking poverty and education	1
“Putting culture in the middle”: A transactional reconstruction	1
La mariposita ¿La recuerda?: the affective and moral dimensions of professional vision in learning to play the violin	1
Agency and Transformation: Motives, Mediation, and Motion	1
Sounding escape: examining the sonic contours of play and story in The Author’s Enigma	1
Call for proposals: special issue on play	1
Background to the special issue on pedology	1
“Where did you go to?” recognizing child agency as it emerges dynamically in interaction	1
From below, on the left & with the earth: Attuning to the relational in learners’ voices through a pedagogy of Buen Vivir	1
Neoliberal psychology	1
How does voice matter? Learners’ voices in sustainability education	1
Gestures, systemic functional linguistics and mathematics education	1
Enacted identity: Broadening conceptions of teacher learning	0
Animation in children’s gameplay: collaborative action and sibling play	0
Teaching creative thinking: how design professors externalize their creative thinking in studio classroom talk	0
Foregrounding learners’ voices: Enabling zones of audacity	0
Early Childhood Teacher Narratives on Constructivism	0
A cultural historical approach to social displacement and university-community engagement: emerging research and opportunities	0
Doing CHAT in the wild: from-the-field challenges of a non-dualist methodology	0
Reflections on the ISCAR 2024 Congress	0
Power relations within division of labor – the key to empowering learners from marginalized backgrounds in mathematics classrooms	0
Emergence and perezhivanie - the double face of the concept of development	0
Doing inspecting in interaction: seeing the physiognomy of an object	0
Hacker education and transformative agency: an empirical study in hacker communities and in the school case of Conexão Escola-Mundo	0
Editorial volume 31 issue 1	0
Action Research in STEM and English Language Learning: An Integrated Approach for Developing Teacher Researchers	0
Connecting mind, heart, culture and activity in an undergraduate service-learning course	0
Consciousness: a concept in Vygotsky’s theory still under debate. Some consequences for the pre-history of pedology	0
Agency in cultural-historical activity theory: strengthening commitment to social transformation	0
Place as creative partner: placemaking with a university arboretum	0
Cultural resonance: Between hip-hop culture & the sociopolitical development of youth artivists in Palestine	0
Making the library of the future identifying the zone of proximal development for a Norwegian public library makerspace	0
No to war	0
Extended music listening systems in cars: the process of curating, performing and remembering in heavy metal musicians	0
The identity affordances of tools: an examination of visual design tool use in STEM	0
Interrogating the notion of giving voice: designing for polyphony in game-based learning ecologies	0
Decolonizing academic spaces: challenges and responsibilities	0
Scope and Criticality in Telling Family Migration Stories With Data	0
Where is Marx in the work and thought of Vygotsky?	0
Learning lab as a utopian methodology for future making: decolonizing knowledge production toward racial justice in school discipline	0
When social change happens: observation of experience and the paradoxes of pivot-making	0
Expansive learning actions for leadership in a teacher training school’s Change Laboratory	0
Children’s grief: repertoires of practices in institutional early childhood education and care	0
A transactional methodology for analysing learning	0
L. S. Vygotsky on theater: from theatrical critique to the Psychology of the actor	0
Looking back when moving forward – unpacking history in cultural-historical activity theory-driven change efforts	0
“It just makes you feel…like you belong finally”: people’s experiences of the Mildura “Welcome Baby to Country” aboriginal ceremony	0

Symposium on transactional perspectives and current research in mind, culture, and activity	0
Reenvisioning adaptive expertise as a distributed phenomenon	0
Unpacking “signs of learning” in complex sociopolitical environments	0
Vygotsky’s pedology of the adolescent: the discovery of sex and the invention of love	0
Maturana’s key insights on learning, language, and emotions: implications for resisting psychologized language in education	0
Making space for ethnic diversity through global education: a zone theory perspective	0
Transforming teaching towards plurilingualism: contributions from reflective practice and a sociocultural approach	0