{ "issue_key": "vol09-no1-2021", "volume": 9, "number": 1, "season": "Spring 2021", "year": 2021, "sequence": 16, "type": "research-article", "section": "Research Article", "title": "Theory for and as Social Practice of Realizing the Future: Implications from a Transformative Activist Stance", "subtitle": null, "slug": "theory-for-and-as-social-practice-of-realizing-the-future-implications-from-a", "corporate_author": null, "authors": [ { "given_name": "Anna", "family_name": "Stetsenko", "credentials": "PhD", "affiliation": "The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)", "email": null, "orcid": null, "is_corresponding": false, "sequence": 1 } ], "abstract": "There is a pressing need today for alternative models of science – at the intersection of theory, methods, and practice – that abandon claims to “objectivist” scientism with its notion of knowledge as a mirror‐ reflection of reality and its belief in “raw” facts disconnected from human practices. The challenge, at the same time, is to move beyond postmodernist approaches marked by relativist indecision, self-defeating skepticism, and lack of activist positioning. This article offers steps in elaborating such an alternative in building and critically expanding on insights from Vygotsky’s project. What is suggested is a model of science as a nonneutral, transformative activist endeavor that transcends the separation between theory and practice while embracing human agency grounded in political imagination and commitment to social transformation.", "keywords": [ "Transformative", "Activist", "Social Practice", "Sociocultural" ], "first_page": 119, "last_page": 133, "pdf_start": 119, "pdf_end": 133, "references": [ { "ordinal": 1, "raw_text": "Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1986. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (Carol Emerson and Michael Holquist, eds.). 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