A Once and Future Discipline
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Köp båda 2 för 815 krMichael Cole argues that, just as fish do not see water because they swim in it, so humans do not see culture because we swim in it. The first part of the book is a fascinating tour of the early days of psychology. He argues that when psychology tried to become a science, it stopped thinking about the culture in which individuals operate. * New Scientist * Michael Coles latest book represents an impressive synthesis of the many disciplinary strands of cultural psychology, as well as an inspiration for this discipline Coles tale is made even more compelling by the account of how he was able to address the concrete theoretical, methodological, and practical problems he and his colleagues encountered while trying to take culture into consideration in their research Coles book should be of interest to a broad audience concerned with the systematic examination of culture and mind All educators concerned with creating, evaluating, and sustaining productive environments for learning are likely to find both examples and analytic tools that may help them in their ventures. Coles subtitle calls cultural psychology a once and future discipline. With this work, he offers a significant boost to the disciplines future. * American Journal of Education * In a very readable, clear book, Cole uses the domain of cognitive development to show how a cultural framework can help us understand the dynamic interplay between individual, social, cultural, and historical lines of development [It is] a convincing argument for why studying culture can open new horizons and frontiers. * American Journal of Psychology * Culture is back in psychology. Michael Cole, one of the most significant contributors to this movement, gives a thoughtful synthesis of his three decades of theoretical and empirical research in this book. Though mild-mannered in his writing, Coles proposal amounts to nothing less than a radical restructuring of the entire discipline of psychology as a scientific enterprise. Whether one agrees with him or not, anyone interested in the culturemind relation should read it cover to cover. In fact, any psychologist, basic or applied, will be richly rewarded by a close reading of it Coles cultural psychology is an impressive achievement with a promising future. * Contemporary Psychology * Michael Coles recent book is a fascinating combination of history, autobiography and monograph. It is written in just the way that psychology should be written. It is informed by the chequered past of this strange discipline, if indeed it is one. In the autobiographical sections the author takes us through his transformation from nave paradigm dope to truly creative scientist. As a monograph the book consists of an exposition of cultural psychology as a general theory of human thought and action, richly illustrated with empirical work conducted within that framework. It has the further merit of cross-referencing, so to say, some, though not all, of the other forms that the disciplinary matrix the author calls cognitive psychology has taken in recent decades. Whenever one comes across a book of this depth and a record of this breadth of experiences, one is struck yet again by the amazing way that orthodox, methodological behaviourism and the naive cognitivist mainstream can continue to be pursued In this remarkable book we have another volume to accompany the growing shelf-load of subtle and powerful studies that call into question the hegemony of methodological behaviourism, nave experimentalism, the quick fix for a few papers to support a tenure application, and mentalistic cognitivism with its hidden and quite implausible individual mental mechanisms Let us hope that this book is widely read, and its message even more widely acted upon. * Culture & Psychology * [This book] throwslight on Max Velmans belief that awareness should not be thought of in terms of happenings in the b
Michael Cole is Professor of Communication and Psychology and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego.
Foreword by Sheldon H. White Introduction Enduring Questions and Disputes Cross-Cultural Investigations Cognitive Development, Culture, and Schooling From Cross-Cultural Psychology to the Second Psychology Putting Culture in the Middle Phylogeny and Cultural History A Cultural Approach to Ontogeny The Cognitive Analysis of Behavior in Context Creating Model Activity Systems A Multilevel Methodology for Cultural Psychology The Work in Context Notes References Acknowledgments Index