Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context
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Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context
Abstract/Description
In this book, I examine how individual thinking processes relate to the cultural context and the social interactions of children that provide guidance, support, direction, challenge, and impetus for development. In presenting my concept of guided participation in cultural activity, I draw heavily on the theory of Vygotsky and refer also to that of Piaget. I focus on literatures in cognitive development, communication and social interaction in infancy and childhood, education, and cultural psychology and anthropology. . . . However, my aim is to integrate the available work from a wide variety of sources to provide a coherent and broadly based account of cognitive development through guided participation in sociocultural activity. This book is addressed to my colleagues and their students—researchers and scholars in the fields of developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, and those in related areas of communication, anthropology, and education. In Part I, I argue that the roles of the individual and the social world are mutual and not separable, as humans by nature engage in social activity with their contemporaries and learn from their predecessors. Part II of the book focuses on the processes by which children's thinking and development are supported and stretched in the immediate social contexts in which children are involved in problem solving, in collaboration with others or in social arrangements of children's activities. In Part III, I consider speculations and evidence of how social interaction may contribute to children's cognitive development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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Oxford University Press
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Medium
Print
Background/context type
Conceptual
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Open access/free-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
978-0-19-505973-1
Citation
Rogoff, B. (1990). Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context (pp. xiv, 242). Oxford University Press.
Num pages
xiv, 242
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