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Development in Context: Acting and Thinking in Specific Environments

by Kurt W. Fischer, Robert H. Wozniak

Pages: 298

Contributors: Kurt W. Fischer,Robert H. Wozniak

Publisher: L. Erlbaum Associates

Place of Publication: Hillsdale, NJ

Publication Year: 1993

Subjects: Cognition In Children--Social Aspects--Congresses,Socialization--Congresses,Environmental Psychology--Congresses

Table of Contents

Title Page

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Development in Context: An Introduction

Ecosystems, Affordances, Transactions, and Skills: Theories of Person/Situation I Interaction

1: The Ecology of Cognitive Development: Research Models and Fugitive Findings

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2: The Intention to Use a Specific Affordance: A Conceptual Framework for Psychology

3: Co-Constructive Metatheory for Psychology: Implications for an Analysis of Families as Specific Social Contexts for Development

4: The Dynamics of Competence: How Context Contributes Directly to Skill

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II: Context and the Acquisition of Sociocultural Knowledge

5: Children's Guided Participation and Participatory Appropriation in Sociocultural Activity

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6: Mediating the Environment: Communicating, Appropriating, and Developing Graphic Representations of Place

7: Patterns of Interaction in the Co-Construction of Knowledge: Separate Minds, Joint Effort, and Weird Creatures

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III: Social Systems as Specific Contexts for Development

8: Socialization of Cognition: The Distancing Model

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9: Cultural Organisms in the Development of Great Potential: Referees, Termites, and the Aspen Music Festival

IV: Commentaries

10: Where is the Social Environment? a Commentary on Reed

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11: Rumble or Revolution: A Commentary

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