Knowledge in Context: Representations, Community and Culture

ISBN-13: 9781138042582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 212 str.

Sandra Jovchelovitch

Opis

This is a classic edition of Sandra Jovchelovitch’s influential book which aimed to demonstrate that knowledge is linked to representations and therefore cannot escape from the societal and cultural processes that shape the development of representational processes in humans.

O autorze

Sandra Jovchelovitch is Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics. Before coming to England, she trained as a psychologist in Brazil, where she actively participated in the process of de-institutionalisation and re-structuring of policies related to the care of the mentally ill. Her research interests are both theoretical and applied and she has published widely in the field of social representations, health, community and development in both English and Portuguese.