Apprenticeship in Thinking - Cognitive Development in Social Context (Hardcover, New)

This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their caregivers and other companions. The author, a leading developmental psychologist, views development as an apprenticeship in which children engage in the use of intellectual tools in societally structured activities with parents, other adults, and children. The author has gathered evidence from various disciplines--cognitive, developmental, and cultural psychology; anthropology; infancy studies; and communication research--furnishing a coherent and broadly based account of cognitive development in its sociocultural context. This work examines the mutual roles of the individual and the sociocultural world, and the culturally based processes by which children appropriate and extend skill and understanding from their involvement in shared thinking with other people. The book is written in a lively and engaging style and is supplemented by photographs and original illustrations by the author.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1990
First published:	February 1991
Authors:	Barbara Rogoff (Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Utah; Visiting Researcher, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences)
Dimensions:	238 x 167 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	256
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-505973-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Cognition & cognitive psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-505973-5
Barcode:	9780195059731

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