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Development in Context: Acting and Thinking in Specific Environments

by Kurt W. Fischer, Robert H. Wozniak. 298 pgs.

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

	Contents
	Acknowledgments	ix
	Development in Context: An Introduction Robert H. Wozniak and Kurt W. Fischer	xi
	Chapter 1: The Ecology of Cognitive Development: Research Models and Fugitive Findings Urie Bronfenbrenner	3
	Chapter 2: The Intention to Use a Specific Affordance: A Conceptual Framework for Psychology Edward S. Reed	45
	Chapter 3: Co-Constructive Metatheory for Psychology: Implications for an Analysis of Families as Specific Social Contexts for Development Robert H. Wozniak	77
	Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Competence: How Context Contributes Directly to Skill Kurt W. Fischer, Daniel H. Bullock, Elaine J. Rotenberg, and Pamela Raya	93
	Chapter 5: Children's Guided Participation and Participatory Appropriation in Sociocultural Activity Barbara Rogoff	121
	Chapter 6: Mediating the Environment: Communicating, Appropriating, and Developing Graphic Representations of Place Roger M. Downs and Lynn S. Liben	155
	Chapter 7: Patterns of Interaction in the Co-Construction of Knowledge: Separate Minds, Joint Effort, and Weird Creatures Nira Granott	183
	Chapter 8: Socialization of Cognition: The Distancing Model Irving E. Sigel, Elizabeth T. Stinson, and Myung-In Kim	211
	Chapter 9: Cultural Organisms in the Development of Great Potential: Referees, Termites, and the Aspen Music Festival David Henry Feldman	225
	Chapter 10: Where Is the Social Environment? A Commentary on Reed John A. Meacham	255
	Chapter 11: Rumble or Revolution: A Commentary William Kessen	269
	Author Index	281
	Subject Index	287

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