Abstract:This paper discusses some of the conceptions about memory found in activity theory - with a special focus on Vygotsky and Zinchenko - and compared them with some of the propositions and conceptions of enactive cognition. An approximation between these two theories, mediated by Marxian conceptions of the "total human being," allows for a more interesting and coherent elaboration of the role of memory in the classroom - overcoming models that understand memory as a mere "warehouse," and its role as that of "memo… Show more
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