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Direct linkMoll, Luis – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
This paper presents an overview of some of Michael Cole's work, starting with his pioneering research in Liberia with the Kpelle (and later, with Sylvia Scribner, studies of literacy with the Vai, 1981), which was formative of his version of a cultural-historical psychology, his translation and interpretations of the work of L. S. Vygotsky and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology
Peer reviewedLave, Jean – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1982
Study of processes by which Liberian apprentice tailors learn their craft is the basis for questioning the traditional dichotomy of "formal" and "informal" education. Used as an analogy to demonstrate that anthropologists need not leave the study of learning to the psychologists, but can make valuable contributions by pursuing…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Apprenticeships, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCiborowski, Tom; Cole, Michael – Child Development, 1972
Two concept-formation experiments were conducted with groups of American and Liberian Ss differing in age and educational background. (Authors)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedCiborowski, Tom – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1977
Groups of formally educated and of uneducated rural Kpelle tribesman and children were given conceptual learning problems. The finding that education proved to have no significant effect on rule learning for either a conjunctive or a disjunctive rule is interpreted as indicating that formal education exerts its influence primarily on the way in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Concept Formation, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Background
Peer reviewedLancy, David – Human Organization, 1975
A school in a rural tribal area of Liberia is compared with a newer, less well-equipped school in a village. (NQ)
Descriptors: Academic Education, Cognitive Development, Cultural Background, Learning Processes
