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Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind Aaro Toomela

Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind By Aaro Toomela

Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind by Aaro Toomela


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Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind by Aaro Toomela

This volume is unique in integrating different domains of psychology, at both theoretical and empirical levels of analysis, in order to understand the development of the human mind. Perspectives include comparative, cultural, and developmental psychology, in addition to neuropsychology. Contributors in this edited collection emphasize both the collective nature of human cognition and the impossibility of separating individuals from their sociocultural environments. They also explain how participation in culture leads to radical changes in an individual's psychological makeup. This volume may also be of interest to anthropologists, philosophy scholars, and semioticians. Major topics include: * Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology * Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain * Cultural Perspective on the Human Development * The Role of Culture in Child Development

About Aaro Toomela

AARO TOOMELA is Visiting Professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Tartu in Estonia.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Culture as an Explanation of the Human Mind Human Development from the Perspective of Comparative Psychology Would Humans Without Language Be Apes? Jacques Vauclair Continuities Between Great Ape and Human Behaviors by Kathleen R. Gibson Assumptions and Knowledge Construction: What Can Science Learn from Primate Languages and Cultures? by Jaan Valsiner Culture in the Developing or Regressing Brain Culture in Our Brains: Cross-Cultural Differences in the Brain-Behavior Relationships by Alfredo Ardila Art and Brain Evolution by Tabassum Ahmed and Bruce L. Miller Cultural Perspective on the Human Development Origins of Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Human Behaviour: An Ecocultural Perspective by John Berry Semiotics of Culture in Scientific and Carnivalistic Guises: Michail Bakhtin and Yuri Lotman by Ivana Markova The Role of Culture in Child Development Making Sense in a World of Symbols by Katherine Nelson Development of Symbol Meaning and the Emergence of the Semiotically Mediated Mind by Aaro Toomela Constructing Knowledge Beyond Senses: Worlds Too Big and Small to See by Eve Kikas Afterwords: Animals, Brain, Culture, and Children--Emerging Picture from Complementary Perspectives by Aaro Toomela Bibliography Index

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NLS9781567505733
9781567505733
1567505732
Cultural Guidance in the Development of the Human Mind by Aaro Toomela
New
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2003-03-30
256
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