[original] Cultural Minds

Title: [original] Cultural Minds
Editor(s): Hatano, G.; Wertsch, J.V.
Publisher: Karger
Year Published: 2001
ISBN: 978-3-8055-7254-5
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This special issue proposes an alternative to traditional individualistic approaches to the development of mind, that might generally be called sociocultural approaches and focus on the institutional, cultural, and historical specificity of mental functioning rather than on universals. All socioculturalists agree that (a) interaction with other people and artifacts plays an important role in learning and in the development of mind, and (b) what occurs in the micro-environment in which individual learning is observed is affected by larger contexts, both at community and global levels. This publication offers some theoretical and empirical discussion about the constitution of culture in mind.
Developmentalists belonging to the mainstream will profit from this special issue as well as those who have found sociocultural approaches interesting but who are yet to embody their inspiration into research enterprise.