Editors’ Introduction: Tensioned Dialogues and Creative Constructions Between Culture and Education in Cultural Developmental Key

This introductory chapter opens the field of education in a cultural developmental perspective and explains how and why learning and development can be considered as cultural processes. It discusses the way the tensioned dialogues and creative constructions between education and culture are conceptualized in this book and outlines the guiding question for this volume: when and how does an educational intrusion produce a constructive surplus of individual and collective creativity, and when do educational contributions create unconstructive or even destructive tensions for the single individual and/or for the community? The introduction also provides an overview of the main themes discussed in each chapter.
This introductory chapter opens thefield of education in a culturaldevelopmental perspective and explains how and why learning and development canbe considered as cultural processes. It discusses the way the tensioned dialogues andcreative constructions between education and culture are conceptualized in this bookand outlines the guiding question for this volume: when and how does an educationalintrusion produce a constructive surplus of individual and collective creativity, andwhen do educational contributions create unconstructive or even destructive tensionsfor the single individual and/or for the community? The introduction also provides anoverview of the main themes discussed in each chapter.