EDUC 139

Main Course

Culture and Cognition

Description

Lecture, four hours. Introduction to theoretical foundations of research on culture and cognition. Drawing from insights of cultural psychology and anthropology, study of various definitions of community spaces, etc.; and consideration of social, political, and educational implications of ways these terms are conceptualized. Study address questions of relationship between culture and development of mind; how this relationship might be studied; what insight research on culture and cognition offers for the organization of learning environments; and for understandings of diversity and equity. Letter grading.