LCHC Collaborative Publications

It has long been a tradition for members of LCHC to write collective essays growing out of themes of common interest explored during our Lab meetings. Access to these publications is provided below.

• • Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
    Laboratory for Comparative Human Cognition, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA

• • NCT and Culture-Conscious Development (2013).

• • The Lab was awarded the 2010 American Educational Research Association's Sylvia Scribner Award. Several generations of members from the lab gave a collective talk for the occasion at the AERA conference in Denver, 2010.

    Relocating the Laboratory: 40 Years of Collaborative Research on Culture
    Sylvia Scribner Award Address
    AERA Denver, Colorado
    May 2nd, 2010
    Michael Cole, Ray McDermott, Luis Moll, Denis Newman, Olga Vásquez, Katherine Brown, and Robert Lecusay.

• • Kids and Computers, A Positive Vision of the Future (1989).

• • SRCD Newsletter (Winter, 1988).

• • Contextual Factors in Education: Improving science and mathematics education for minorities and women Part 1
    Mike Cole, Peg Griffin, LCHC, 1987.

• • Contextual Factors in Education: Improving science and mathematics education for minorities and women Part 2
    Mike Cole, Peg Griffin, LCHC, 1987.

• • Contributions of Cross-Cultural Research to Educational Practice (1986).

• • Culture and Cognitive Development (1983).

• • A Model System for the Study of Learning Difficulties (LCHC, July 1982)

• • What's Cultural About Cross-Cultural Cognitive Psychology? (1979).

• • Cross-Cultural Psychology's Challenges to Our Ideas of Children and Development (1979).

• • Cognition as a Residual Category in Anthropology (1978).

• Memory Spans for Nouns, Verbs, and Function Words in Low SES Children (1976).