What psychology should study
One cannot understand either culture or mind without taking account of the manner in whichthey interact in situ. The student of mind who ignores the cultural setting that mind requires in order to operate effectively fails to do justice to the contextualized nature of mental activity. And to descri...
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| description | One cannot understand either culture or mind without taking account of the manner in whichthey interact in situ. The student of mind who ignores the cultural setting that mind requires in order to operate effectively fails to do justice to the contextualized nature of mental activity. And to describe culture without regard to the limits imposed by our mental capacities is equally disabling. This brief paper seeks to bring mind and culture into a workable relation with each other. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68e380781c024b2b881adce82cb745912022-12-22T01:40:41ZengHipatia PressInternational Journal of Educational Psychology2014-35912012-02-011110.4471/ijep.2012.01What psychology should studyJerome Bruner0New York University One cannot understand either culture or mind without taking account of the manner in whichthey interact in situ. The student of mind who ignores the cultural setting that mind requires in order to operate effectively fails to do justice to the contextualized nature of mental activity. And to describe culture without regard to the limits imposed by our mental capacities is equally disabling. This brief paper seeks to bring mind and culture into a workable relation with each other.https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/ijep/article/view/179culturemindcommunityinteraction |
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