Editors' introduction: sociocultural psychology on the move; Part I. Theoretical and Methodological Issues: 1. The human psyche lives in semiospheres; 2. Psychology as the science of sensemaking: A semiotic-cultural framework for psychology; 3. Knowledge and experience: interobjectivity, subjectivity and social relations; 4. Against 'mediationism': both cognitive and sociocultural; 5. Sociocultural psychology and interpersonal psychoanalysis: the semiotic space in the consulting room; Part II. Action, Objects, Artefacts and Meaning: 6. Spirited psyche makes up artefacts. Semiotic dynamics of experience in the shaping of objects, agency and intentional worlds; 7. Making social objects: the theory of social representation; 8. Beyond the distinction between tool and sign: objects and artifacts in human activity; 9. The sociocultural study of creative action; 10. Symbolic resources and imagination in the dynamics of life; Part III. The Agent Rises a Reflective Self: Education and Development: 11. Early infancy: a moving world. Embodied experience and the emergence of thinking; 12. Object Pragmatics: Culture and communication, the bases for early cognitive development; 13. Distinguishing two processes of self-reflection Alex Gillespie; 14. Making memory: meaning in development of the autobiographical self; 15. Mapping dialogic pedagogy: instrumental and non-instrumental education; 16. Development and education as crossing socio-cultural boundaries; Part IV. Institutional Artefacts for Value: 17. Ownership and exchange in children. Implications for social and moral development; 18. Possessions and money beyond market economy; Part V. Aesthetic and Religious Experiences: 19. The sociocultural constitution of aesthetic transcendence; 20. Sociocultural science of religion and natural belief; 21. Psyche and Religio face to face: religion, psychology and modern, subjectivity in the mirror; Part VI. Practices and Artefacts for Imagining Identity: 22. Imaginative processes and the making of collective realities in national allegories; 23. National identities in the making and alternative pathways for history education; 24. The politics of representing the past: symbolic spaces of positioning and irony; 25. Beyond historical guilt: intergenerational narratives of violence and reconciliation; 26. Psytizenship: sociocultural mediations in the historical shapings of the Western citizen; Part VII. Experiences Make the Person: 27. The human experience: a dialogical account of self and feelings; 28. Knowing ourselves: dances of social guidance, imagination and development by overcoming ambivalence; 29. Personal history and historical selfhood - the embodied and pre-reflective dimension; 30. The development of a person - children's experience within the cultural life course; 31. The construction of the person in the interethnic situation: dialogues with indigenous university students; 32. Social identities, gender and self: cultural canalization in imagery societies; 33. The experience of ageing: views from within and without; General conclusions; An epistemological coda: sociocultural psychology among the sciences. schovat popis