formal/informal

Mike Cole (mcole who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Sat, 16 Jan 1999 14:45:39 -0800 (PST)

For the archeologists among you interested in this distinction:

Scribner, S. & Cole, M. Cognitive consequences of formal and informal education.
Science, 1973, 182, pp. 553-559.

Greenfield, P.M. & Lave, J. (1982). Cognitive aspects of informal education. In
D. Wagner and H. Stevenson, eds. *Cultural perspectives on child development*
New York: Freeman.

Jean Lave's *Cognition in Practice* can be read as an extensive critique of the
distinction and its foundations.

The LCHC chapter on culture and cognitive development in Mussen's *Handbook of
Child Development*, 1983, Volume 1, contains a lot of relevant material.

The list of contributors to that chapter is recommended to those among the
archeologists who find geneology (sp?) a convivial preoccupation.

I guess Scribner and Cole, Psycyhology of Literacy is probably also relevant.

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mike