Sustaining Model Systems of Educational Activity: Designing for the Long Haul

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Title

Sustaining Model Systems of Educational Activity: Designing for the Long Haul

Abstract/Description

Once upon a time, in a far away ivory tower by the East River, my colleagues and I were engaged in what, at the time, was considered a peculiar enterprise. We had come to distrust the power of experimental psychology, as we had learned it at our mentors’ elbows, for illuminating important aspects of cognitive development in a manner that could be validly generalized beyond their artificially produced conditions of existence. This distrust had arisen from our experience conducting research in markedly different societies, especially societies whose cultures did not include heavy dependence on modern technologies of transportation, communication, and industrial production, regular practice in the arts of reading and writing, or experience in such institutions as formal schooling or government bureaucracies.

Author/creator

Cole, Michael

Date

2007

In publication

Children's Learning in Laboratory and Classroom Contexts: Essays in Honor of Ann Brown

Editor

Campione, Joseph

Metz, Kathleen

Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan

Publisher

Routledge

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Theoretical

Language

en

Open access/full-text available

en Yes

ISBN

978-0-429-23895-6

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (Taylor & Francis)

Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)

Citation

Cole, M. (2007). Sustaining Model Systems of Educational Activity: Designing for the Long Haul. In J. Campione, K. Metz, & A. S. Palincsar (Eds.), Children’s Learning in Laboratory and Classroom Contexts: Essays in Honor of Ann Brown (0 ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203826966

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The Work of Improvement

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