Mind and Social Practice - Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner

Klappentext Mind and Social Practice presents work from Sylvia Scribner's career as a pioneer of cultural psychology. Zusammenfassung Sylvia Scribner's research and theory have been monumental in forming the emergent field of cultural psychology. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and previously unpublished work from her productive! wide-ranging career! studying reasoning and thinking in their cultural and activity contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series foreword; Preface; Foreword Barbara Rogoff; A Daughter's Perspective Aggie Scribner Kapelman; Introduction; Part 1: Pscychology as Social Practice: 1. Issues in the development of a labor mental health program; 2. Advocacy: strategy or slution?; 3. What is community psychology made of?; 4. Social class and mental illness: a critical review; 5. Research as a social process; 6. Psychology and the problems of society: a review; 7. Psychologists, process and performance; Part II. Thinking and Cultural Systems: 8. Societal structures of the mind: a review; 9. Culture and cognition: a review; 10. Situating the experiment in cross-cultural research; 11. Recall of classical syllogisms: a cross-cultural investigation of error on logical problems; 12. Modes of thinking and ways of speaking: culture and logic reconsidered; 13. Intelligence tests: a comparative perspective; Part III. Literacy: Mind and Society: 14. The cognitive consequences of literacy; 15. The practices of literacy: where mind and society meet; 16. Literacy in three metaphors; 17. Observations on literacy education in China; 18. Studying literacy at work: bringing the laboratory to the field; 19. Introduction: The future of literacy in a changing world; Part IV. Cognitive Development: Sociohistorical Perspective: 20. Vygotsky's uses of history; 21. A sociocultural approach to the study of mind; 22. Three developmental paradigms; Part V. Thinking at Work: 23. Mind in action: a functional approach to thinking; 24. Knowledge at work; 25. Thinking in action: some characteristics of practical thought; 26. Studying working intelligence; 27. Mental and manual work: an activity theory orientation; 28. Toward a model of practical thinking at work; 29. Head and hand: an action approach to thinking; Chronology; Bibliography; Name index; Subject index....

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sylvia Scribner, Ethel Tobach, Ethel (American Museum of Natural History Tobach
• Collaboration: Rachel Joffe Falmagne (Editeur), Falmagne Rachel Joffe (Editeur), Kapelman Aggie Scribner (Editeur), Laura M. W. Martin (Editeur), Mary Brown Parlee (Editeur), Parlee Mary Brown (Editeur), Ethel Tobach (Editeur), Tobach Ethel (Editeur), Rogoff Barbara (Préface)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.01.1997
• EAN: 9780521467674
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46767-4
• Pages: 456
• Thèmes: Learning in Doing; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Psychologie, ésotérique, spiritualité, anthroposophie > Psychologie: général, ouvrages de référence; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Psychologie > Psychologie théorique; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology