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Michael Cole, Professor

Cole's work focuses on the elaboration of a mediational theory of mind. He has conducted cross-cultural research on cognitive development, especially as it relates to the role of literacy and schooling. His recent research has been devoted to a longitudinal study of individual and organizational change within educational activities specially designed for afterschool hours. These systems link universities and local communities and allow a study of the dynamics of appropriation and use of new technologies and cultural-historical approaches to human development. According to Cole's methodology, mind is created and must be studied in communication.

Mike Cole's Vita

What kind of ass would try to carry such a load?

Publications and Papers:

Theory:

Phylogeny and cultural history in ontogeny (in Russian)
by Mike Cole
Culture and Development
by Mike Cole
Developmental Science; An Advanced Textbook pg. 45-51 , 52-66, 67-90, 91-101.
by Mike Cole
Current activity for the future
Peg Griffin and Mike Cole
Can Cultural Psychology Help us Think About Diversity?
Michael Cole, UCSD LCHC 1998
The Social Foundations of Language and Thought
Essays in Honor of Jerome S. Bruner, 1980, Ch. 15, pg. 343-364
Contemporary Implications of Vygotsky and Luria:
Michael Cole and James V. Wertsch
A Cultural Theory of Development: What does it Imply About the Application of Scientific Research? (PDF)(1991).
Michael Cole
Vygotsky and Context Where did the Connection Come From and What Difference Does it Make?
Michael Cole.
Reading Vygotsky: (Preface to an edited colllection of Vygotsky Writings by Rieber and Robineon).
Michael Cole.
Comments on Commentaries About Cultural Psychology
Michael Cole.
Ecological Niche Picking: Ecological Invalidity as an Axiom of Experimental Cognitive Psychology (Unpublished Manuscript)
Michael Cole, Lois Hood, and Ray McDermott
School's Invasion of “After-School”: Colonization, Rationalization, or Expansion of Access? (2003)
Nocon, Honorine, Michael Cole
Alexander Luria, Cultural Psychology and The Resolution of the Crisis in Psychology (1997)
Michael Cole
Culture and Cognitive Science (1997)
Michael Cole
Cultural Historical Activity Theory
Katherine Brown and Michael Cole
The Illusion of Culture-free Intelligence Testing
A Cultural-Historical View of Human Nature (1998)---Bibliography
Michael Cole and Karl Levitin
Struggling with Complexity:The Handbook of Child Psychology at the Millennium (2000)
Michael Cole
Bruner and Hybridity
Talk Presented at Symposium Honoring Jerome Bruner, Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Nov. 17, 2000
"Literate Mathematical Discourse: What it is and why should we care?"
Anna Sfard, The University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel, 2002
Michael Cole, University of California San Diego, USA
Promoting Service Learning as a Byproduct of Academically Oriented, Community Based Practicum Courses.
Elaine Parent, Lars Rossen
Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
University of California, San Diego
We Have Met Technology and it is Us
Michael Cole & Jan Derry
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The Fate of Stages Past: Reflections on the Heterogeneity of Thinking from the Perspective of Cultural-historical Psychology
Michael Cole and Eugene Subbotsky
Beyond the Individual-social Antimony.pdf, (1996)
Michael Cole, James V. Wertsch

Development and Education:

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments
edited by David H. Jonassen, Susan M. Land
CSCL2 Carrying Forward the Conversation
edited by Timothy Koschmann, Rogers Hall, Naomi Miyake
A Utopian Methodology as a Tool for Cultural and Critical Psychologies: Toward a Positive Critical Theory
Katherine Brown and Michael Cole
Schooling and Human Development
Michael Cole
Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Consequences of Education: Implications for the Future (November 1, 2002)
Michael Cole
Comparative Cognitive Research: Learning from a Learning Disabled Child (1981)
Michael Cole, Ken Traupmann
Contextual Factors in Education: Improving science and mathematics education for women and minorities (1987)
Ed. Michael Cole, Peg Griffin
Individual and Collective Activities in Educational Computer Game Playing (1997)
Victor Kaptelinin, Michael Cole
A Model System Approach to Reading
King, Griffin, Diaz, Cole
New Technologies, Basic Skills: Language, Literacy and Culture
Griffin, Cole
A Socio-Historical Approach to Re-mediation
Michael Cole and Peg Griffin

Design Experiments

Youth Development FOCUS: A Monograph of the 4-H Center for Youth Development University of California, Davis
Ketherine Brown and Michael Cole, 1997
Documenting Children's Problem Solving Behaviors: Using Fieldnotes of Participant Observers
Amy Olt, Michael Cole and Scott Woodbridge
Sustaining Model Systems of Educational Activity: Designing for the Long Haul
Paper Presented at Symposium Honoring the Work of Ann Brown (2001)
Michael Cole
Challenges to Studying Developmental Processes in Voluntary Afterschool Programs
Prepared for AERA, April, 2001
Michael Cole

Recent Talks: To view the talks you might need to download: wmv PC wmv - wmv Mac - QuickTime

Boston SCRD, 2007 - The Centrality of Artifacts in Designing Environments to Promote Development: The Case Study of the 5th Dimension

Berkeley, 2006

Interview (2006): "The Role of Technology in Learning and Education"

Remembering Giyoo Hatano - wmv (large file)

Cross-cultural and Historical Perspectives on the Consequences of Education: Implications for the Future, Oxford, Nov 1, 2002. (NOTE: This is a PowerPoint Presentation.)

Webcast Lectures:

Mediation, Creativity, and Consciousness.
The lecture was a bilingual interactive English/Russian video conference transmitted over the Internet.
Mike Cole and Olga Kuchinskaya

Networks and Virual Worlds
Lecture transmited to Helsinki on Nov 18, 2003
Mike Cole and Etienne Pelaprat.

Awards:

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology Note published in American Psych Association Monitor, vol 37, no 5 2006

The Cultural Historical Special Interest Group of AERA announced the first recipients of the SIG's newly created awards: The Life Time Contribution Award , 2004

The Italian Ministry for the University and for Scientific and Technological Research has approved the proposal of awarding Mike Cole with the Laurea Honoris Causa in Psychology, 2004

Artículos en Español

La zona de desarrollo próximo: donde cultura y conocimiento se generan mutuamente (1984)
Infancia y Aprendizaje, Mike Cole

Vygostky a los 100: teoria de la actividad cultural-histórica como instrumento para el pensamiento (1996), Michale Cole, Conferencia en Cuernavaca, México

Una aproximación socio-histórica a la re-mediación (1989)
Mike Cole y Peg Griffin