Drawing from Vygotsky and extending his work, the author examines the dynamic relationship between thinking processes and the cultural context, gathering evidence from various areas. Num Pages: 272 pages, halftones and line drawings throughout. BIC Classification: JMAQ; JMC; JMH; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 524. . 1990. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication Date: 1990
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195059735
ISBN 13: 9780195059731
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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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.

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Barbara Rogoff is currently Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Utah.

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