Internalization: beyond a metaphor

Abstract

Instructional interaction between an expert and a learner is one of the most important topics in sociocultural psychology in order to understand the ontogenesis and the learning process. At the same way, the idea of interiorisation is crucial in any theory that consider the sociogenesis of individual functioning. In this paper, it considers that this notion let us to discuss again one of the oldest problems in psychology, the relationship between external and internal world. Specifically, the relationship between nature and culture, between biological and simbolic world.