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Mind, Culture, and Activity
This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual foundations of human development. The … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Activity theory, Cultural psychology, Culture, Mind, Vygotsky
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Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in everyday life
Most previous research on human cognition has focused on problem-solving and has confined its investigations to the laboratory. As a result, it has been difficult to account for complex mental processes and their place in culture and history. In this … Continue reading
Posted in Activity theory, Cognition, Culture, Mathematics, Praxis, Situated
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Everyday Cognition: Development in Social Context
Everyday Cognition: Development in Social Context In Everyday Cognition leading scholars in developmental psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology have joined forces to examine how thinking and cognitive development are influenced by social context. John Seely Brown, Michael Cole, Herbert P. … Continue reading
Posted in Activity theory, Children, Cognition, Culture, Development, Dialogical learning, Informal learning, Rogoff, Situated learning, Sociocultural, Vygotsky
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A Cultural and Systemic View of Distributed Creativity
This article discusses the limitations of the first generation of creativity-management technologies based on the psychological theories of intelligence and problem-solving. The turn into a cultural and systemic conception in the psychology of creativity is analyzed. It is argued that this … Continue reading
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Cultural Psychology: a once and future discipline
This book is an attempt to answer two questions: “Why do psychologists find it so difficult to keep culture in mind?” and “If you are a psychologist who believes that culture is a fundamental constituent of human thought and action, … Continue reading
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