Mind and social practice : selected writings of Sylvia Scribner /
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| Author / Creator: | Scribner, Sylvia, 1925- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | xxv, 424 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Learning in doing. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2604487 |
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
