Cultural Psychology

A Once and Future Discipline

Michael Cole

  • Awarded Harvard University Press's Annual Prize for an Outstanding Publication about Education and Society, Established in 1995 by the Virginia and Warren Stone Fund
  • Honorable Mention in the Category of Psychology, 1996 Association of American Publishers, Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division

Foreword by Sheldon H. White

Introduction

Enduring Questions and Disputes

Cross-Cultural Investigations

Cognitive Development, Culture, and Schooling

From Cross-Cultural Psychology to the Second Psychology

Putting Culture in the Middle

Phylogeny and Cultural History

A Cultural Approach to Ontogeny

The Cognitive Analysis of Behavior in Context

Creating Model Activity Systems

A Multilevel Methodology for Cultural Psychology

The Work in Context

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Cultural Psychology

Michael Cole is Professor of Communication and Psychology and Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition at the University of California, San Diego.