This thesis is set in a research e ort that aims to model sociocultural and temporal aspects to allow Senegalese communities to share and to co-construct their sociocultural knowledge. Indeed, with the globalization it is very common to meet African youth and particularly Senegalese youth knowing more about the geography of the West than their own countries. Thus, to refresh the memory of our f...

Activity theory—a conceptual framework originally developed by Aleksei Leontiev—has its roots in the socio-cultural tradition in Russian psychology. The foundational concept of the theory is human activity,which is understood as purposeful,mediated, and transformative interaction between human beings and the world. Since the early 1990s, activity theory has been a visible landmark in the theore...

My purpose today is to explore implications of cultural psychology for guiding educational practice, especially educational practice in settings where the children come from many different home cultures, ethnicities, and social classes. You will note that I phrased my topic as a question. Many scholars, including myself, have raised questions about how classical cultural-psychological ideas han...

There is a growing need for research on culture, cultural differences and cultural effects of globalization in medical education, but these are complex phenomena to investigate. Socio-cultural activity theory seems a useful framework to study cultural complexity, because it matches current views on culture as a dynamic process situated in a social context, and has been valued in diverse fields ...

The hybrid aspect of cultures has been on the agenda of cultural and social studies as well as the arts for several years. From the perspective of the semiotician, cultures will necessarily be in continuous contact with a minimum of neighbours in order to enhance cultural semiosis, i.e., to make innovation and change possible. Otherwise, isolation would be in effect and limit a culture to its o...