Mind and Social Practice
Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner
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Part of Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Editors:
- Ethel Tobach, American Museum of Natural History, New York
- Rachel Joffe Falmagne, Clark University, Massachusetts
- Mary Brown Parlee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Laura M. W. Martin, Arizona Museum of Science and Technology
- Aggie Scribner Kapelman, National Labor Relations Board
- Date Published: January 1997
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521467674
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Sylvia Scribner's contributions to the emergent field of cultural psychology have been monumental. Her studies of reasoning and thinking within contexts of culture and activity added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many now consider a distinctive branch of psychology. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner's wide-ranging and prolific career. The book is arranged chronologically and includes five section introductions by the editors, placing Scribner's work in the context of her life, her commitments, and the political and intellectual events of the times. This authoritative text will appeal to researchers in cognitive, work, and educational psychology, as well as anthropologists.
Read more- An exemplary collection for teaching how to be a significant psychologist
- Sylvia Scribner was an extremely important figure, in particular for the way science and society are intertwined in her work (which is fashionable today)
- An integration of biography and scientific contributions to psychology - some of it never published before
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"With her cognitive study of work, Sylvia Scribner chartered yet another area for a sociocultural study of human activity. The readers of this volume are invited to continue the exploration using Sylvia Scribner's unfinished 'map'." Contemporary Psychology
See more reviews"The volume is a wonderful illustration of Scribner's thinking and work over time, and the editors have arranged the volume in such a way as to place Scribner's work in the context of her life, her commitments, and the political and intellectual events of the times. Researchers will find this volume useful, not only because it brings together a number of Scribner's writings but also as a tool for reflecting on their own evolving theorizing and its sociohistorical development. The volume is also valuable for use in graduate courses that examine learning and schooling in cultural and social context and as a coherent example of a researcher interweaving theory and practice and her response to the moral obligations she owned as a researcher." Joanna O. Masingila, Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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- Date Published: January 1997
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521467674
- length: 456 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.605kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 17 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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