Mind and Social Practice Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner [Hardcover]

Mind and Social Practice presents work from Sylvia Scribner's career as a pioneer of cultural psychology.This anthology brings together published and unpublished work from a wide-ranging and prolific career in cultural psychology. It is arranged chronologically, viewing Sylvia Scribner's work in the context of her life and commitments as well as the events of the times.This anthology brings together published and unpublished work from a wide-ranging and prolific career in cultural psychology. It is arranged chronologically, viewing Sylvia Scribner's work in the context of her life and commitments as well as the events of the times.Sylvia Scribner's contributions to the emergent field of cultural psychology have been monumental. Her studies of reasoning and thinking within contexts of culture and activity added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many now consider a distinctive branch of psychology. Mind and Social Practice brings together published and unpublished work from Sylvia Scribner's wide-ranging and prolific career. The book is arranged chronologically and includes five section introductions by the editors, placing Scribner's work in the context of her life, her commitments, and the political and intellectual events of the times. This authoritative text will appeal to researchers in cognitive, work, and educational psychology, as well as anthropologists.Series foreword; Preface; Foreword Barbara Rogoff; A Daughter's Perspective Aggie Scribner Kapelman; Introduction; Part 1: Pscychology as Social Practice: 1. Issues in the development of a labor mental health program; 2. Advocacy: strategy or slution?; 3. What is community psychology made of?; 4. Social class and mental illness: a critical review; 5. Research as a social process; 6. Psychology and the problems of society: a review; 7. Psychologists, process and performance; Part II. Thinking and Cultural Systems: 8. Societal structures of the mind: a review; 9. Culture and cognition: a review; 1l3+