Mind, culture, and activity
Subtitle: seminal papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
By: edited by Michael Cole, Yrjö Engeström, Olga Vasquez.
Contributors: Cole, Michael, 1938-; Engeström, Yrjö, 1948-; Vasquez, Olga A.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 501
Subjects: Ethnopsychology.; Cognition and culture.; Social psychology.
Description: "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 central theme of this discussion can be posed as a question: How shall we develop a psychology that takes as its starting point the actions of people participating in routine, culturally organized activities? The discussion is organized in terms of a set of overarching themes of importance to psychologists and other social scientists: The nature of context; experiments as contexts; culture-historical theories of culture, context, and development; the analysis of classroom settings as a social important context of development; the psychological analysis of activity in situ; and questions of power and discourse. This text will appeal to graduate students and professionals in psychology, anthropology, education, and child development."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.