Michael Cole / Yrjo Engestrom / A. Vasquez (eds.)

Mind, Culture, and Activity

Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
Herausgeber: Cole, Michael; Vasquez, Olga A.; Engestrom, Yrjo

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume presents articles important to contemporary studies of the cultural and contextual foundations of human development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 986g
• ISBN-13: 9780521552387
• ISBN-10: 0521552389
• Artikelnr.: 31972137

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to the 'Mind, Culture, Activity' Michael Cole, Yrjo
Engestrom and Olga Vasquez; 2. When is a context? Some issues and methods
in the analysis of social competence Frederick Erickson and Jeffrey
Schultz; 3. Plying frames can be dangerous: some reflections on methodology
in cognitive anthropology Charles O. Frake; Part I. Experiments as
Contexts: 4. Concepts of ecological validity: their differing implications
for comparative cognitive research Michael Cole, Lois Hood and Raymond P.
McDermott; 5. What's special about experiments as contexts for thinking?
Jean Lave; 6. Sociolinguistic structure of word lists and ethnic-group
differences in categorized recall Anderson F. Franklin; 7. Looking for Big
Bird: studies of memory in very young children Judy S. DeLoache and Ann L.
Brown; 8. 'Body Analogy' and the cognition of rotated figures Yutaka
Sayeki; 9. Paradigms and prejudice Laboratory of Comparative Human
Cognition; 10. The early history of the Vygotskian school: the relationship
between mind and activity Norris Minick; 11. One developmental line in
European activity theories Eric Axel; 12. Activity, consciousness and
communication David Bakhurst; 13. The sound of the violin Ernest E. Boesch;
14. Non-Cartesian artefacts in dwelling activities: steps towards a
semiotic ecology Alfred Lang; Part II. Historical Analysis: 15. The
invention of writing and the development of numerical concepts in Sumeria:
some implications for developmental psychology Ageliki Nicoloupoulou; 16.
Collective memory: issues from a socio-historical perspective James
Wertsch; 17. Students' interactional competence in the classroom Hugh
Mehan; 18. The competence/incompetence paradox in the education of minority
culture children R. Gallimore and K. Hu-Pei-Au; 19. The organization of
bilingual lessons: implications for schooling Luis C. Moll, Elette Estrada,
Esteban Diaz and Lawrence Lopes; 20. Kanji help readers of Japanese infer
the meaning of unfamiliar words G. Hatano, K. Kuhara and M. Akiyama; 21.
Functional environments for microcomputers in education Denis Newman; 22.
'But it's important data!': making the demands of a cognitive experiment
meet the educational imperatives of the classroom M. G. Quinsaat; 23.
Performance before competence: assistance to child discourse in the zone of
proximal development Courtney Cazden; Part III. Cognition in the Wild: 24.
Low-income children's pre-school literary experiences: some naturalistic
observations Alonzo B. Anderson, William H. Teale and Elette Estrada; 25.
Selling candy: a study of cognition in context Geoffrey B. Saxe; 26.
Mediation and automatization Edwin Hutchins; 27. Mind in action: a
functional approach to thinking Sylvia Scribner; 28. Coordination,
cooperation and communicatoin in the Courts: expansive transitions in legal
work Yrjo Engestrom, Katherine Brown, L. Carol Christopher and Judith
Gregory; Part IV. Power and Discourse: 29. The politics of representation
Michael Holquist; 30. Wisdom from the periphery: talk, thought and politics
in the ethnographic theater of John Milington Synge R. P. McDermott; 31.
Learning to be deaf: conflicts between hearing and deaf cultures Carol
Padden and Harry Markowicz; 32. Why must might be right?: observations on
sexual herrschaft Esther Goody; 33. Just say no: responsibility and
resistance Bonnie E. Litowitz.