Die Auseinandersetzung mit Konstruktivismus und Sprachpragmatik sowie der cultural turn in den Sozialwissenschaften eröffnen auch für die Psychologie neue Perspektiven. In welchem Sinn sind psychische Phänomene soziokulturelle Konstruktionen? Worauf beziehen sich dann psychologische Begriffe? Der Soziale Konstruktionismus nimmt diese Fragen auf und plädiert für eine Psychologie, die soziale Prozesse und Diskurse ins Zentrum rückt. Die Autorin verknüpft seine Rekonstruktion mit der Problematisierung des kognitivistischen Wissensbegriffs und des ihm zugrunde liegenden Sprachmodells. Abschließend werden pragmatistische und kulturpsychologische Erweiterungen stark gemacht. Durch den breiten und systematischen Zugang ist der Band auch als Einführung in die Wissenspsychologie geeignet.
"Actually, Barbara Zielke has published two books: a reconstruction of the cognitive psychology of knowledge as well as a draft of a postcognitive psychology (of knowledge) that she developed by examining social constructionism and contemporary cultural psychologies. The reader would have been quite overhelmed by such a broad and ambitious programme if Zielke had not taken the reader's hand and guided them through times and theories as in a historically founded, three-dimensional labyrinth. She does not spare anything to make all the details and connections visible. By following Zielke's thread, one crosses the borders of theories, and the theories from different times are shown to be linked. Consequently, the argument of the book is not developed by following chronological order, rather, it is determined by a central question: How does a (cultural) psychology of knowledge have to be conceptualized to include the pragmatic everyday usage of implicit knowledge ('knowing-how'), a concept that not only refers to explicit knowledge as something that the individual owns ('knowing-that' as a formal knowledge of rules and facts)? This question is central, because 'most psychological models of knowledge fail in realizing their claim torepresent the everyday knowledge properly as a cultural, social and practical one'. [...]" (European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 8, no.4)Besprochen in: European Journal of Social Theory, 9/1 (2006)
Besprochen in: European Journal of Social Theory, 9/1 (2006)"Actually, Barbara Zielke has published two books: a reconstruction of the cognitive psychology of knowledge as well as a draft of a postcognitive psychology (of knowledge) that she developed by examining social constructionism and contemporary cultural psychologies. The reader would have been quite overhelmed by such a broad and ambitious programme if Zielke had not taken the reader's hand and guided them through times and theories as in a historically founded, three-dimensional labyrinth. She does not spare anything to make all the details and connections visible. By following Zielke's thread, one crosses the borders of theories, and the theories from different times are shown to be linked. Consequently, the argument of the book is not developed by following chronological order, rather, it is determined by a central question: How does a (cultural) psychology of knowledge have to be conceptualized to include the pragmatic everyday usage of implicit knowledge ('knowing-how'), a concept that not only refers to explicit knowledge as something that the individual owns ('knowing-that' as a formal knowledge of rules and facts)? This question is central, because 'most psychological models of knowledge fail in realizing their claim torepresent the everyday knowledge properly as a cultural, social and practical one'. [...]" (European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 8, no.4)