...Michael Cole The growth of the ‘sociohistorical’ approach to human development in the USSR and the USA is discussed in terms of their cross-cultural theorizing and research. The key idea in common between these schools is that culture plays a crucial, mediating, role in the process of human...

...Sarah Michaels 11 7 2005 Commentary Human Development 2005;48:136 145 DOI: 10.1159/000085516 Can the Intellectual Affordances of Working-Class Storytelling Be Leveraged in School? Sarah Michaels1 Clark University, Worcester, Mass., USA Key Words Cultural tools ` Narrative ` Schooling...

... from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Early childhood Ethnography Schooling Sociocultural theory Commentary Human Development 2002;45:349 354 Accounting for Change: Priming, Power, and Plot Martin Packer Duquesne University...

... ` Qualitative approaches ` Schooling ` Sociocultural theory Context matters has become one of the mantras of developmental psychology. Researchers and educational practitioners embracing a wide range of theoretical and applied perspectives have argued that we cannot understand development outside its context...

... institutions such as schooling and societal changes such as industrialization. For the research portfolio to develop a comprehensive approach to investigating coordinated patterns in cultural aspects of human development, we need a more open-minded respect for a variety of approaches to cultural research than...

...Diane Scott-Jones Commentary Human Development 2002;45:54 60 The Complexities of Gender and Other Status Variables in Studies of Schooling Diane Scott-Jones Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., USA Key Words Gender W Girls schooling W Ethnic segregation W Inequities in schooling W Schooling...