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It may be useful to understand microgenesis and its relation to 3 other domains: phylogenesis, ontogenesis and sociogenesis. Microgenesis refers to development in individual cases of interaction Phylogenesis refers to our biological inheritance that allows for a kind of development unique to humans Ontogenesis refers to development over an individual's lifetime Sociogenesis refers to changes in the mediational artifacts of a culture They're related in that, for example, ontogenetic development provides or limits the possibilities of microgenetic development; and microgenetic development can accumulate to ontogenetic development. I don't know if there is a definitive statement of such links, but i got it from an article by Gillespie and Cornish (2010), who draw on the work of Duveen (who i haven't read - but i've listed some of the references below) One thing to note is that microgenesis is conceptualised as the object of study, while there is a microgenetic methodology for investigating it. Rosenthal has a nice discussion of microgenesis but traces it back to Werner rather than Vygotsky Some resources: Duveen & Lloyd 1990 - Introduction; in Social representations and the development of knowledge Duveen & De Rosa 1992 - Social representations and the genesis of social knowledge Gillespie & Cornish 2010 - What can be said? identity as a constraint on knowledge production Rosenthal 2002 - Microgenesis, immediate experience and visual processes in reading Siegler 2006 - Microgenetic analyses of learning. (In Kuhn & Siegler (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology: Volume 2: Cognition, perception, and language) Wagoner 2009 - The experimental methodology of constructive microgenesis (in Valsiner (ed), Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences) Wertsch 1985 - Vygotsky and the social formation of mind I hope thats helpful. I'm by no means a scholar on microgenesis or the microgenetic method - i'm new to the area (and this mailing list) myself I'm curious if folks out in XMCA-land could point me in the direction of > good papers that define/explain or use the concept of microgenesis (or any > of its kin terms)? __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca