Mind, Culture, and Activity:
An International Journal
Formerly, The Quarterly Newsletter of the
Laboratory of Comparative Human
Cognition
The format of MCA consists of four sections, the relative weights of
which will
change
somewhat from issue to issue. The first category includes articles of
general
theoretical
or empirical importance which go through a regular peer review
process. The
second
category is symposia, which are built around a central article or book
that
addresses
important theoretical themes. Commentaries are invited from
scholars from
different
intellectual traditions and cultural contexts. The third category
contains
informal
communications or renderings in alternative genres. These may
include work-
in-
progress reports, summaries of e-mail discussions, poetry, etc. The
fourth type
includes book reviews and shorter book notes.
For those who are new to the journal, we recommend you read the Introduction to the inaugural issue to learn more
about the journal and its theoretical stance and aspiration.
More about MCA
- Notes to Contributors
- Ordering Information
- Editorial Board
Sneak Preview
MCA Vol.4, No.1, Winter 1997
Current Issue
MCA Vol.3, No.4, Fall 1996
Contents:
- Introduction
- Symposium
On Interobjectivity
Bruno Latour
Commentaries
Michael Lynch
Marc Berg
Yrjo Engestršm
- Article
Macrodevelopmental Analysis: From Open Fields to Culture
Via Genres of Art and Developmental Research
David K. Dirlam
- Book Review:
J. L. Lemke : Sociosultural Approaches to Language and Literacy
, by V. John-Steiner, C. Panofsky, and L. Smith, Eds.
- M. R. Gover: The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience,
by F. J. Varela, E. Thompson, & E. Rosch
Back Issues
MCA Vol.3, No.3, Summer 1996
Contents:
- Introduction
- Teaching, as Learning, in Practice
Jean Lave
- Orchestrating a Text Mediational View of Vygotsky
Ann Shea Bayer
- The Voices of Design: Discourse in Participatory Information
System Development
Toomas Timpka and
Cecelia Sjšberg
- If O-Ring Booster Seals Were Alive
Gary Shank
- Book Review:
Suzanne de Castell: Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language
, by D. Barton
Edouard Lagache: Educated in Romance: Women, Achievement, and College Culture ,
by D. Holland and M. A. Eisenhart
MCA Vol.3, No.2, Spring 1996
Contents:
- Introduction
- Using the Tool-Kit of Discourse in the Activity of Learning and
Teaching
Gordon Wells
- Learning as a Prosaic Act
Deborah Hicks
- Learning to Make a Difference: Gender, New
Technologies, and In/Equity
Mary Bryson and Suzanne De Castell
- Informal Communications:
The Experience of Fieldwork,
by Charles Underwood
- Book Review:
Margaret A. Gallego: Beyond Technology: An Examination of Children's Educational Computing at Home
, by J. b. Giacquinta, J. A. Bauer, and J. E. Levin
Mary Guavain: Child Care and Culture: Lessons from Africa
, by R. A. LeVine, S. Dixon, S. leVine, A. Richman, P.H. Liederman, C. H. Keefer, and T. B. Brazelton
MCA Vol.3, No.1, Winter 1996
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Seven Flaws of Cross-Cultural Psychology. The Story of a Conversion
Ernest E. Boesch
- How Instruction Influences Children's Concepts of Evolution
Mariane Hedegaard
- Intersubjectivity Without Agreement
Eugene Matusov
- Review Symposium:
J.D. Keller, C. Bazerman, B. Latour :
Cognition in the Wild
, by Edwin Hutchins
- Response to Reviewers, by Edwin Hutchins
- Book Review:
Giyoo Hitano : Sociocultural Studies of Mind
, by J. V. Wertsch, P. del Rio, & A. Alvarez
MCA Vol.2, No.4, Fall 1995
Contents:
- Introduction
- Reification of Artifacts in
Ideological
Practice
Naoki Ueno
- The Social Construction of Reality in the
Artifacts
of Numeracy for Distribution and Exchange in a Nepalese Bazaar
Naoki Ueno
- Social Rules in Practice: "Legal" Literacy Practice
in
Nepalese Agricultural Village Communities
Yasuko Kawatoko
- Sociocultural Change, Activity, and
Individual Development: Some Methodological Aspects
King Beach
- Activity as a Mediator of Sociocultural
Change
and Individual Development: The Case of School-Work Transition in
Nepal
King Beach
- Book Review:
Courtney Cazden: Acting Out Participant Exmples in the
Classroom, by Stanton Wortham
- Book Review:
Jaan Valsiner: Psychology, Subject, and Subjectivity,
by Charles W. Tolman
MCA Vol.2, No.3, Summer 1995
Contents:
- Introduction
- On the social constitution of mind:
Bruner, Ilyenkov, and the
defence of cultural psychology
David Bakhurst
- Creativity as Mediated
Action: A Comparison of
Improvisational Performance and Product Creativity
R. Keith Sawyer
- Voice as Communicative
Action
Ritva Engestrom
- Book Review:
Bertram Bruce: Computers and the Collaborative
Experience of
Learning, by Charles Crook
Raija Leena Punamaki: The Psychological Effects of
War and Violence on
Children, edited by Lewis A. Leavit & Nathan A. Fox
Honorine Nocon: Context and Culture in Language
Teaching
, by Claire Kramsch
MCA Vol.2, No.2, Spring 1995
Contents:
- Introduction
- Experiencing the Great
Books
Stanton E. F. Wortham
- Collectively Seeing the
Wind: Distributed Cognition in Smokejumping:
Rick Jonasse
- The Language of Human
Temporality: Narrative Schemes and Cultural Meanings of
Tim
Jens Brockmeier
- Understanding How
Children Experience the Relationship Between Home and School
Mathematics
Guida De Abreu
- Book Review:
Review Symposium: Cross-Cultural Roots of Minority
Child Development
Bonnie A. Nardi: Understanding Practice
MCA Vol.2, No.1, Winter 1995
Contents:
- Introduction
- Cognitive Pluralism: A
Sociocultural Approach
Vera John-Steiner
- SYMPOSIUM: Anselm
Strauss's Theory of Action
Susan Leigh Star: Listening for Connections
Anselm Strauss: Research Issues and an Interactionist Theory of
Action
COMMENTARIES: Hans-Georg Soeffner, Kathryn Pyne
Addelson, Norman K.
Denzin, Kari Thoresen
- Book Review:
Patricia M. Greenfield: The Significance of Schooling:
Life-Journeys in
an African Society, by Robert Serpell
Robert Serpell: Response to Patricia M. Greefield's
Book Review
The Sociocultural Research Group, Michigan State
University: Artificial
Experts: Social Knowledge and Intelligence Machines
, by H. M. Collins
MCA Vol.1, No.4, Fall 1994
Contents:
- Introduction
- The Primacy of Mediated Action
in Sociocultural
Studies:
James V. Wertsch
- Developing Understanding
of the Idea of Communities of
Learners:
Barbara Rogoff
- Immigration Without
Adaptation: The Psychological
World of Russian Immigrants in Israel
Alex Kozulin, Alexander Venger
- Book Review:
Henrik Artman: Distributed Cognitions: Psychological
and Educational
Considerations
Susanne Bodker: The Computer as Medium
MCA Vol.1, No.3, Summer 1994
Contents:
- Introduction
- Studying Cognitive
Development in Sociocultural Context: The Development of a Practice-
Based Approach
Geoffrey B. Saxe
- Constructions and
Reconstructions of Self in Virtual Reality: Playing in the
MUDS
Sherry Turkle
- Strategies for Model-
Revision in a High School Genetics Classroom
Elizabeth A. Finkel
- Book Review:
David W. Kritt: Children in Time and Place:
Developmental and Historical Insights, edited by G. H. Elder, Jr., J.
Modell, & R. D. Parke
Richard J. Richard: Literacy, Culture, and
Development: Becoming Literate in Morocco, by Daniel a. Wagner
MCA Vol.1, No.1&2,Winter/Spring
1994
Contents
- Introduction
- Activity Theory and the View
from Somewhere: Team Perspective on the Intellectual Work of
Programming
Dorothy Holland and James R. Reeves
- Irreveribility of Time and the
Construction of Historical Developmental Psychology
Jaan Valsiner
- Negotiating a Fusion of
Horizons: A Process View of Cultural Validation in Developmental
Psychology
Robert Sorpell
- SYMPOSIUM: Arne
Raeithel: Symbolic Production of Social
Coherence
COMMENTS: Arne Raeithel, Susan Leigh Star, Niels
Engelsted, Adrian Cussins
- Commodities, Words, and
Minds
Ray Mc Dermott
Stanford University
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