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Direct linkIsik-Ercan, Zeynep – Childhood Education, 2012
Children's participation in cultural activities within the community, and the particular cognitive and socioemotional skills that they gain as a result of their participation, have been thoroughly studied (Cole, 1990; Gallimore & Tharp, 1990; Moll et al., 2005; Scribner & Cole, 1981). However, the connection of these skills to school learning or…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Emotional Development, Muslims, Cultural Activities
Gredler, Margaret; Shields, Carol – Educational Researcher, 2004
In the May 2001 issue of "Educational Researcher," Michael Glassman proposed several commonalities in the thinking of John Dewey and Lev Vygotsky. However, in addition to general problems in the article (misstatements about scholars' writings and a reliance on unsupported inferences), the discussion misconstrues major concepts and topics addressed…
Descriptors: Criticism, Misconceptions, Educational Researchers, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedRogoff, Barbara; Chavajay, Pablo – American Psychologist, 1995
Describes the transformation of research on cognition and culture from cross-cultural comparisons of psychological tasks to theory and research on people's thinking in sociocultural activities. Recent developments in sociocultural theories and research over the past three decades are summarized, and theoretical and research commonalities that are…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Influences
Saxe, Geoffrey B. – 1981
This brief report from the Indigenous Mathematics Project focuses on the way in which numerical reasoning is changing in the Oksapmin community of Papua New Guinea as a function of participation in new social institutions: economic exchange with currency and enrollment in school. Each of these new institutions means that arithmetic problems are…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cross Cultural Studies
Kendall, Jane C., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This publication is the first volume of a three-volume resource book intended for anyone who wants to start, strengthen, or support a program or course that combines community or public service with learning. The book covers policies, issues, and programs in colleges and universities, K-12 schools, community-based organizations, public agencies at…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agencies, Citizen Participation, Citizenship
Peer reviewedMey, Langha de; Schulze, Hans-J. – Journal of Moral Education, 1996
Questions Lawrence Kohlberg's complexity hypothesis that individuals exhibit higher stages of moral judgement in complex socio-political surroundings. Tests the moral judgements of adolescent students from The Netherlands and the former German Democratic Republic. Results of the tests failed to support Kohlberg's hypothesis. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Background
Social Science Research Council, New York, NY. – 1978
Detailed accounts of activities of 19 committees of the Social Science Research Council form the major portion of this annual report. In addition, the Council president's report summarizes the activities, trends, and goals of the Council in areas such as research planning, the improvement of research methodology, and the training of competent…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Behavioral Science Research, Biological Influences, Child Development
