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Category Archives: Cultural psychology
Theories Linking Culture and Psychology
Psychological theories and research often assume nations are culturally homogeneous and stable. But global demographic, political, and economic changes and massive immigration have sparked new scholarly and policy interest in cultural diversity and change within nations. This chapter reviews interdisciplinary … Continue reading
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New epistemological foundations for Cultural Psychology: from Atomistic to Self-organizing Living Systems
An epistemological foundation for cultural psychology is essential to neuro- and behavioural sciences for the challenge psychological sciences must currently face: searching for an explanation of how a brain can become a mind and how individuals assign a sense to … Continue reading
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Cultural Neuroscience: Cultural Influences on Brain Function
Cultural neuroscience is a new, interdisciplinary field bridging cultural psychology, neurosciences, and neurogenetics that seeks to explain how neurobiological processes, such as genetic expression and brain function, give rise to cultural values, practices, and beliefs as well as how culture … Continue reading
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Cultural Neuroscience
Cultural neuroscience issues from the apparently incompatible combination of neuroscience and cultural psychology. A brief literature sampling suggests, instead, several preliminary topics that demonstrate proof of possibilities: cultural differences in both lower-level processes (e.g. perception, number representation) and higher-order processes … Continue reading
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Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community
This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and … Continue reading
Posted in Adult development, Childhood, Children, Collaborative learning, Community, Cultural psychology, Education, Educational research, Rogoff, Schooling, Schools
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Mind, culture, and activity
Mind, culture, and activity This volume brings together articles from The Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. The selected articles are important benchmarks in the recent history of research and theory on the cultural and contextual foundations … Continue reading
Posted in Activity, Activity theory, Cultural psychology, Culture, Mind, Vygotsky
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