A breadth of approaches to mind, culture and activity

Abstract

We open this issue with a warm welcome to professor Karlyn Adams-Wiggins as a new member of our editorial collective. Dr. Adams-Wiggins is Assistant Professor of Applied Development Psychology at Portland State University. Dr. Adams-Wiggins' research background on issues of identity development, motivation, and inclusion in underrepresented racial minorities and low-income firstgeneration students, and commitment to social justice through scholarship is of great relevance to our journal and in efforts to build a more inclusive and diverse team. We are honored to count on Karlyn’s expertise and editorial advice for both Mind, Culture and Activity and Cultural Praxis, and look forward to a fruitful collaboration. This issue includes five research articles, all of which advance a diversity of theoretical perspectives. Mind, Culture, and Activity has, throughout the years, established itself as a journal of reference for Vygotskian and Cultural-Historical Activity Theory scholarship. The editorial collective is committed to continue publishing works that expand these approaches. From its inception, this journal has been, and still is committed to publishing other relevant approaches to the study of mind, culture, and activity, across a range of disciplines (linguistics, psychology, anthropology, education) and interdisciplinary fields, such as science and technology studies or cultural studies. More than ever, we are committed to bringing in and making more visible epistemic perspectives alternative to hegemonic approaches in academia, including indigenous and other marginalized epistemologies. The papers in this issue offer a glimpse to this theoretical and interdisciplinary breadth.