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Comments on everyday science
Author(s) -
Cole Michael
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of developmental psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.062
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 2044-835X
pISSN - 0261-510X
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-835x.1990.tb00844.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cognition , special section , natural (archaeology) , everyday life , cognitive science , section (typography) , cognitive psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , engineering physics , neuroscience , engineering , history , operating system
In his introduction to this special section, Giyoo Hatano has done an admirable job of motivating the need for cross‐fertilization between two approaches to cognitive development: the first begins from an analysis of everyday, culturally organized activities that are then modelled in experimental procedures; the second tradition focuses on domains of knowledge that seem to represent universal natural kinds, whose structures and implications for cognition are interrogated through interview or experiment.