Mind and social practice : selected writings of Sylvia Scribner
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Mind and social practice : selected writings of Sylvia Scribner
（Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives）
Cambridge University Press, 1997
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-416) and indexes
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Description
Sylvia Scribner's research and theory have been monumental in forming the emergent field of cultural psychology. Her studies of reasoning and thinking in their cultural and activity contexts added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many are now viewing as a distinctive branch of psychological studies. She was among the first to combine ethnographic studies with experimental studies in order to determine relationships among indigenous literacy and logical activities and their cognitive outcomes. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and previously unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner's productive and wide-ranging career.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. Her later, more theoretically rich writing is enhanced by an appreciation of her earlier work.
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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