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Michael Cole, Professor

Communication and Psychology

Ph.D., Psychology,
Indiana University (1962)

mcole@ucsd.edu

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

Theory
Development and Education
Design Experiments
Awards
Articulos en Espanol
Articles in Russian
Interviews

 

 


Apropos Thoughts on the
Revolutions and Their Causes

(From C. Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, Ch 15)

Along the Paris streets, the death carts rumble, hollow and harsh.

Six tumbrels carry the day's wine to La Guillotine. All the devouring and insatiate monsters imagined since imagination could record itself, are fused in the one realization, Guillotine. And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush human humanity out of shape once more, under similar hammers, and it will twist itself into the same tortured forms. Sow the same seed of rapacious license and oppression over again, and it will surely yield the same fruit, according to its kind.

 

 

 

Publications and Papers:


Theory

Cole, M., & Cigagas, X.E. (2010). Culture and Cognition. In M. H. Bornstein (Ed.). /Handbook of cultural developmental science/. (pp. 127-142). New York, NY, US: Psychology Press.

Nicolopoulou, A. & Cole, M. (2010). Design experimentation as a theoretical and empirical tool for developmental pedagogical research. Pedagogies. An International Journal, 5 (1), 61 — 71

Braga, L., Rossi, L., & Cole (in press) Creating an Idioculture to Promote the Development of Children Who Have Suffered Cerebral Palsy* */Educação e Contemporaneidade (Education in the Contemporary World)/

TECHNOLOGY LITERACY AND THE EVOLUTION OF SOCIETY
Implications of the Work of Jack Goody
Zone of Proximal Development. (1983)
James V. Wertsch
Contextual Factors in Education: Improving science and mathematics education for women and minorities (1987)
Ed. Michael Cole, Peg Griffin, LCHC.
A Model System Approach to Reading
King, Griffin, Diaz, Cole
New Technologies, Basic Skills: Language, Literacy and Culture
Griffin, Cole
A Model System Approach to Reading
King, Griffin, Diaz, Cole
New Technologies, Basic Skills: Language, Literacy and Culture
Griffin, Cole
Phylogeny and cultural history in ontogeny
Michael Cole *
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory in the Family of Socio-Cultural Approaches. International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development Newsletter. 47(1), 1-4. (2005).
by Mike Cole
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, 67-9, 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
Figure 1
Figure 2
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:

Literacy without School Testing for Intellectual Effects
Mike Cole and Scribner
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
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

 

Intervention Research:

Using Cross-Cultural Psychology to Design Afterschool, Educational Activities in Different Cultural Settings 200
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
Perspectives on Human Development, Family, and Culture by Mike Cole


Honors, Awards, Lectureships:

Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award, 2010

Ph.D Board Member at the University of Bari, Italy, 2009

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


Articulos en Espanol:

Psicologia cultural

Cognicion y pensamiento, (1986)

Psicologia cultural- Chapter 5 (Capitulo 5)

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

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

Una aproximacion socio-historica a la re-mediacion (1989)
Mike Cole y Peg Griffin


Articles in Russian
:

Russian Article by Mike Cole.pdf

Interviews:

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

 

Remembering Giyoo Hatano - wmv (large file)

   
 

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