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Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:57:55 -0600
From: Carol D. Lee <cdlee@nwu.edu>
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Spencer RTG Symposia
Northwestern University - School of Education & Social Policy
Exploring Multi-Method Approaches/ Drawing on Multiple Theoretical Constructs:
New Approaches to Understanding and Designing Interventions
in Complex Real World Settings
INAUGURAL LECTURE
MICHAEL COLE
University Professor
Director of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
University of California at San Diego
Editor - Mind, Culture and Activity: An International Journal
TITLE:
Cultural Psychology, Cognitive Science,
and the Design of Educational Activities.
Professor Cole will draw attention to the centrality of affinities
between cultural psychology and cognitive science as "sciences of the
artificial" and apply the resulting synthesis to the issue of
designing educational activities.
Monday, March 5, 2001
4 - 5:30 P.M. -- Reception to follow
Annenberg Hall - Room 303
2115 North Campus Drive
(847) 491 - 7494
Professor Cole is one of the most renowned scholars of our time. His
research focuses on the role of culture in human development. This
interest works itself out in such areas as the study of culturally
mediated learning and development in children and mediational
theories of mind. His numerous awards include Honorary Doctorate from
Copenhagen University, recipient of the Distinguished Contributions
to Educational Research Award from AERA, Fellow of the American
Academy of Arts & Sciences, Member of the National Academy of
Education, Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He has
published nearly 200 articles in major journals, edited volumes, and
single volume works. Among his numerous publications are The
Development of Children (1989) and Cultural Psychology (1996). He is
the author or editor of 13 books. His works have been translated into
Russian, German, Italian, Japanese, French, Dutch, and Portuguese.
He has been one of the major figures to bring to the United States
the work of the Soviet school of psychology represented by Lev
Vygotsky and Alexander Luria, influencing a major focus in studies of
learning and development on the role of context and culture. He is
currently helping to shape a re-positioning of the field of the
cognitive sciences toward a model that incorporates multiple levels
of context.
Copies of recent papers by Professor Cole are available on-line:
http://lchc.ucsd.edu/People/MCole/ Papers are also available in
room 201 Annenberg Hall.
Carol D. Lee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Education and Social Policy
School of Education and Social Policy
Northwestern University
2115 North Campus Drive
Evanston, Illinois 60208
Fax: (847) 491 -8999
Phone: (847) 491 - 7494 or (847) 467 - 1807
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