| Description |
xxv, 424 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Learning in doing |
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Learning in doing.
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| Contents |
Foreword / Barbara Rogoff -- A daughter's perspective / Aggie Scribner Kapelman -- 1. Issues in the development of a labor mental health program -- 2. Advocacy: Strategy or solution? -- 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 -- 8. Social 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 -- 14. The cognitive consequences of literacy -- 15. The practice of literacy: Where mind and society meet -- 16. Literacy in three metaphors -- 17. Observations on literacy education in China |
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18. Studying literacy at work: Bringing the laboratory to the field -- 19. Introduction: The future of literacy in a changing world -- 20. Vygotsky's uses of history -- 21. A sociocultural approach to the study of mind -- 22. Three developmental paradigms -- 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 |
| Summary |
Mind and Social Practice brings together published and unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner's productive and wide-ranging career. The book includes a general introduction and five section introductions by the editors, placing Scribner's work within the framework of her life, her commitments, and the political and intellectual events of the times. Arranged chronologically, the volume illustrates how Scribner's work continually built upon and advanced earlier insights and explorations. Her later, more theoretically rich writing is enhanced by an appreciation of her earlier work. The book ends with a chronology of her life and a complete bibliography of her work. Because Scribner's work was wide-ranging, Mind and Social Practice will have wide appeal - in psychology, anthropology, education, labor studies, cognitive science, literary, African studies, and the history of science. Further, since the volume places her work in the narrative context of her life, her political commitments, and her influence on others, it will also engage feminist scholars and historians of ideas |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p409-416. _ Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-416) and indexes |
| Subject |
Cognition and culture.
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Thought and thinking -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Tobach, Ethel, 1921-2015.
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| LC no. |
96012328 |
| ISBN |
0521462037 |
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0521467675 (paperback) |
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