This interdisciplinary work presents an integration of theory and research on how children develop their thinking as they participate in cultural activity with the guidance and challenge of their caregivers and other companions. The author, a leading developmental psychologist, views development as an apprenticeship in which children engage in the use of intellectual tools in societally structured activities with parents, other adults, and children. The author has gathered evidence from various disciplines--cognitive, developmental, and cultural psychology; anthropology; infancy studies; and communication research--furnishing a coherent and broadly based account of cognitive development in its sociocultural context. This work examines the mutual roles of the individual and the sociocultural world, and the culturally based processes by which children appropriate and extend skill and understanding from their involvement in shared thinking with other people. The book is written in a lively and engaging style and is supplemented by photographs and original illustrations by the author.
1. Cognitive Development in Social Context PART I: The Individual and the Sociocultural Context 2. Conceiving the Relationship of the Social World and the Individual 3. The Sociocultural Context of Cognitive Activity PART II: Processes of Guided Participation 4. Providing Bridges from Known to New 5. Structuring Situations and Transferring Responsibility 6. Cultural Universals and Variations in Guided Participation PART III: Cognitive Development Through Interaction with Adults and Peers 7. Explanations of Cognitive Development through Social Interaction: Vygotsky and Piaget 8. Evidence of Learning from Guided Participation with Adults 9. Peer Interaction and Cognitive Development 10. Shared Thinking and Guided Participation
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