Apprenticeship in Thinking

Apprenticeship in Thinking by Barbara Rogoff

Defining the process of learning as an apprenticeship--a social activity that is mediated by parents and peers who support and challenge the child's understanding and skills--Rogoff here explores the mental development of children. She draws from and expands on the work of Vygotsky in her examination of the dynamic relationship between thinking processes and the cultural context and gathers evidence from various areas--cognitive and developmental psychology, cultural psychology, anthropology, infancy studies, and communications research. By integrating available evidence and her own research, Rogoff provides a coherent and broadly based account of cognitive development in the sociocultural context. Written in a provocative and engaging style and supplemented by photographs and original drawings by the author, this book will be used by students as well as researchers in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology, and those in the related disciplines of communication, anthropology, and education.

'Iis a major contribution to the study of congitive development.. the best account of a sociocultural approach to cognitive development we have to date.'J. Wertsh, Science

Barbara Rogoff is currently Professor of Psychology and Coordinator of the Developmental Psychology Program at the University of Utah.

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ISBN 13	9780195059731
ISBN 10	0195059735
Title	Apprenticeship in Thinking
Author	Barbara Rogoff
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1990-06-14
Number of pages	272
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