La idea de los orígenes sociales de las funciones psicológicas no es antitética con la noción de su construcción personal

Abstract

As his starting point, the author takes Valsiner's proposal for the integration of the subject's self-structuring activity and the social and cultural aids that make it possible. He notes, however, certain limitations of this position in conceptualizing the relations between pupil-adult-task at institutional level. The author underlines the need to analyze the forms in which joint activity, and specially discourse, is organized, in order to avoid an excessively abstract unit of analysis such as semiotically mediated activity.