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Culture and Cognitive Development: Giyoo Hatano's Insights and the Questions They Open
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; Peterson, Candi; Lawrence, Jeanette A. – Human Development, 2007
To bring out Giyoo Hatano's contributions to the understanding of culture and cognitive development, we note first his special style--thoughtful, inventive, and always focused on central issues and on combining theory with data--and then, for three areas, some of the conceptual advances he proposed. The areas have to do with ties between cognitive…
Descriptors: Social Development, Cognitive Development, Cultural Context, Skills
Editors' Preface to "Precepts and Practices."
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Notes that the essence of the study that follows is its attention to the ways in which competing cultural viewpoints, competing possible identities, are played out in practice. Comments that by providing a detailed description of the researcher's role, the study exemplifies the reflexiveness that many see as a hallmark of practice perspectives.…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Research Design, Researchers
Cultural Practices: Toward an Integration of Culture and Development.
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Miller, Peggy J; Goodnow, Jacqueline J. – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Explains that cultural practices appeals to developmental researchers as a construct that contextualizes development and provides a way of bringing together thinking, doing, feeling, and becoming. Describes five propositions in general terms and offers an indication of how the concept of practice has been translated into research. (BAC)
Descriptors: Cultural Activities, Cultural Context, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development
Editors' Preface to "Cultural Practices and the Conception of Individual Differences."
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Explores the question raised by the following article: What are the consequences, both cognitive and social, of engaging in a particular cultural practice?. States one consequence that has gained prominence: "intra-individual variability," the extent to which what is learned remains linked to the situation in which it is learned or come…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Individual Differences
Editors' Preface to "Development through Participation in Sociocultural Activity."
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; And Others – New Directions for Child Development, 1995
Provides an overview of the following article by Rogoff (PS523071) in terms of its focus and contribution. Notes the article's focus on the proposition that development is a process of transformation through participation in cultural practices, and that changes must be considered at three levels: personal, interpersonal, and community. (BAC)
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Cultural Context, Developmental Psychology, Individual Development
Acquiring Cultural Forms: Cognitive Aspects of Socialization Illustrated by Children's Drawings and Judgments of Drawings.
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Goodnow, Jacqueline J.; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
Three studies explored children's adoption of cultural forms of representation. Investigated were (1) children's judgments from students' drawings about the age of the artist; (2) children's preferences for drawings and the extent preferences match teachers'; and (3) differences between drawings children produce for themselves and those they…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Children, Cognitive Development, Criteria