Michael Cole
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3593752 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Cole |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Cole |
| FIRMA | COLE M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3055-8593 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 160 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 466 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Virtual water in global supply chains
Governmental Capabilities and Responsiveness
We consider how the governmental and political contexts of societies affect the delivery of decarbonization agendas. Data on government effectiveness and political stability (capability) and voice and accountability (responsiveness) are related to emission levels in high and middle/low-income countries. The analysis implied that greater government effectiveness initially decreased, but then increased emissions. Alternatively, improvements in poli…
Meaning‐based, code‐based, and vocabulary‐based instruction in middle and high school classrooms
This commentary explores the nuanced approaches to literacy instruction in middle and high school classrooms, emphasizing the integration of skilled and strategic reading. The commentary underscores the distinction between skilled readers' effortless navigation through familiar texts and the conscious employment of reading strategies when faced with complex texts. It draws attention to components of instruction within English Language Arts, Scien…
Banana Populism
This study conceptualizes 'banana populism,' a novel analytical framework to examine how whimsical imagery functions in in contemporary populism. Banana populism utilizes the ordinary-exemplified by the banana-for its ubiquity, inherent humor, and absurdity, transforming these elements into powerful political tools. These articulations effectively mainstream extreme ideologies, invite affective investment from broad publics, and delineate antagon…
Nice Is Different Than Good
Stephen Sondheim's music delights with its virtuosity. But how can that be? To describe Gianlorenzo Bernini as a virtuoso is to point to his ability to cut marble in a way no one before him had found possible. To describe Simone Biles is a virtuoso is to admire the power and precision of her routine. Virtuosity in these cases is a quality of performance. Doesn't the composer leave performance to others? Certainly a part of what makes Sondheim's m…
How do speaker characteristics influence use of rhetorical history? Insights from text mining analysis of discourse about Brexit
Management researchers interested in rhetorical history have hitherto paid little attention to how the personal characteristics of managers influence how individuals use the tool of rhetorical history to persuade others. We use advanced text mining tools to explore the impact of gender, education, and political ideology on how speakers use rhetorical history. We derived hypotheses from the management literature on rhetorical history and from mora…
Stripped-Down Painting
The Challenges to the Study of Cultural Variation in Cognition
Utopian methodology
Background This article explores the methodological foundations for a utopian methodology as a form of Design-Based Intervention Research (DBR) that can guide the process of envisioning, implementing, sustaining, and critically evaluating the more radical forms of educational activity systems that prefigure the utopian goal of an equitable and humane education system.Methods We examine, guided by a utopian methodology lens, the examples from thre…
Expanding Cycles of Collaboration and Critical Inquiry in Utopian Methodology. The 360 Education Alliance Case
The article proposes and illustrates a methodological framework that aligns with the action-research models and utopian methodology in particular, although it represents a more substantial leap forward, especially regarding the distributed nature of decision making in the different processes of research/intervention, and its multiple and systematic nature (linking theory, practice and politics). It is developed through four main phases: i) collec…
Theory building from qualitative evaluation
This article argues that not only is theory building from qualitative evaluation possible, but ought to be considered as a desirable product and utilisation of evaluators’ work. Based on three case studies, the authors show how theory building can work, and why it can be important and useful. Theory building is seldom considered an impact-producing product from evaluation. Theory in evaluation is typically limited to ‘evaluation theory’ as a way …
Evaluative thinking
Evaluative thinking is a core skill used by evaluators. It brings evaluation practice to a higher level of sophistication and utility and helps to ensure that evaluation findings, interpretations and recommendations are contextualised, evidence-based and practical. This article draws upon decades of the work of evaluators who have published on thinking critically and evaluatively. It identifies and explores the five primary elements of evaluative…
Remembering Alexander Luria
Bronze as Model
Background to the special issue on pedology
Roses Down the Barrel of a Gun. Georgia
Roses Down the Barrel of a Gun. Georgia: Love and Revolution." Europe-Asia Studies, 73(7), pp. 1398–1399
A Taste of Georgia. Far Right Populism with a Unique Georgian Flavour
Georgia has proved no exception to recent political trends, which have seen the increased prominence and influence of far right populist parties and movements purporting to represent ‘the people’ in an antagonistic struggle against the ‘elites’ or ‘enemies’. However, while considerable academic attention has been devoted to cases in Central and Western Europe (CWE), studies of Georgian far right populism are less common. This paper examines the p…
The Living Hand of the Past
“Technology” is lately equated with hardware and software, but for the Ancient Greeks, a technology combined two linked features: the doing of an art/craft ( techne ) and theorizing about the doing ( technologia ). We thus consider a “technology” as a “sociotechnical system” – an entanglement of humans with one another, the tools, arts, crafts, practices and institutionalized forms of life of their time. Writing systems and new media are each rel…
Evolution and Ontogenesis
We explore contemporary evolutionary perspectives on children’s psychological development, questioning the view that high-fidelity, inter-individual transmission of information explains the cumulative character of human cultures, and children’s ontogenesis within these cultures. We argue that humans construct an environmental niche that is unique in being composed of institutions, which function to coordinate activity over multiple time scales. I…
Acknowledging changes and the challenges ahead
We live in challenging times. Ongoing problems of social and ecological injustice – exacerbated by the climate crisis, unabashed neoliberalist greed, and the rise of racism and nationalisms across
Scholarly work and/as passion
With regret, we open this issue of Mind, Culture, and Activity acknowledging the loss of Fernando Gonzalez Rey, a deeply human scholar whose work has been central to past and recent developments in
Prolepsis and boundary crossings in the development of Mind, Culture, and Activity
As the editorial team of Mind, Culture, and Activity (MCA), we write with a sense of urgency in regenerating our commitment to our collective history while strengthening our efforts to welcome new
Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture (Roundtable of the methodological seminar supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin)
On May 25, 2018 the Moscow State University of Psychology and Education hosted a methodological seminar “Human Development and the Creative Potential of Culture” (supervised by V.V. Rubtsov and B.D. Elkonin) that was dedicated to the 80th birthday of the renowned American psychologist professor Michael Cole, the disciple of A.R. Luria and the successor of the cultural-historical and activity approaches in psychology. Michael Cole has and continue…
Emotion and Affect Across Varied Contexts and Genres
Learning without lessons
Cultural differences and inferences about psychological processes
Can Cultural Psychology Help Us Think About Diversity
1998). Can Cultural Psychology Help Us Think About Diversity? Mind, Culture, and Activity: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 291-304
Development of free recall learning in children
The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking
The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking
Accountability and quasi‐government
While much concern has been expressed about the accountability of quasi‐government there has been little empirical research on the subject. Similarly, the literature lacks a thorough assessment of the contribution of parliamentary questions to holding governmental institutions accountable. In this paper part of this gap in the literature is closed by measuring the extent to which a wide range of executive non‐departmental public bodies (ENDPBs) a…
Writing and Formal Operations
Opening ParagraphThe Islamic brotherhoods common in North Africa take a variety of forms south of the Sahara, but even at the very fringes of Muslim, penetration the great orders such as the Qaddiriyya have a part to play in the lives of the believers. One function they have is to bring adherents back to what members of the order see as the essential tenets of the faith, to purge practice of the inevitable compromises made with local 'pagan' cult…
Culture and Memory1
The problem of specifying the ways in which culture influences cognitive processes is discussed using the relation between culture and memory as a special case. Beginning with scattered suggestions from the anthropological and psychological literature, a research strategy combining ethnolinguistic and experimental psychological techniques is described. Mnemonic performance is shown to depend upon a host of situational (cultural) factors which mus…
Minding the Gap
Between Discourse and Schema
Vygotsky and the Russian cultural-historical school offer an alternative psychology well suited to anthropological studies of culture and mind. This is the case even though their 1920s understanding of "culture" needs reformulation. Here we argue strongly for the school's recognition of mediation through cultural artifact as the foundation of human mental and emotional activity. At the same time we begin to rework a more contemporary notion of cu…
Let's try to make it a good day”— some not so simple ways∗
Executive and Scrutiny Reforms
This article evaluates the shift to an executive and scrutiny model in local government by assessing the changes at Devon County Council. Interviews were used to evaluate support for the changes and identify the key issues and problems. Most members had little enthusiasm for the reforms, support for the changes was dependent on the loyalty of Liberal Democrat backbenchers towards the leadership and central government's legislative agenda. The ana…
What’s Culture Got to Do With It
The author examines the role of culture in education in historical perspective to suggest the conditions required to promote generalized educational reform. Although deliberate instruction appears to be a ubiquitous characteristic of human beings, schools arise only when large numbers of people begin to live in close proximity, using technologies that create economic surpluses. Schooling is associated with the development of institutionalized hie…
Theorizing about Socialization of Cognition
The 2011 Welsh General Election
The May 2011 Welsh General Election represented an important staging post in the development of a mature democracy as it followed immediately from the referendum result which gave the Assembly full-primary legislative powers. Here Michael Cole draws on an article written with Professor Laura McAllister, recently published by Parliamentary Affairs, to discuss the campaign, its results and the operation of the electoral system
The Perils of Translation
In this brief note I want to address the problem of translating into English the Russian word, obuchenie, as it concerns ongoing discussions of Vygotsky's ideas about the arrangement of children's
So you think you know what local government is
Unpackaging literacy
Evaluating and Theorising Committee Scrutiny
This article addresses committee scrutiny undertaken through the three main UK devolved institutions (the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the Northern Ireland Assembly). This is undertaken using a framework derived from scholarship about House of Commons select committees and a substantive comparative literature. Devolved committee scrutiny is thus compared and contrasted in relation to a three-phase analysis in terms of …
Local Government Reform In Britain 1997–2001
This article considers the origins of the local government reform agenda of the 1997 to 2001 Labour government. The analysis identifies a wide range of factors including recurring themes in the debate about local government, market mechanisms, Labour Party politics, the traditions of the British state, the constitutional reform agenda and the international context. This study also develops the notion of shifting constraints to explain this proces…
The Role(s) of County Councillors
This article considers the role(s) of county councillors in the context of the contemporary reform agenda. This study incorporates an analysis of the relevant academic literature, however the conclusions are based on interviews with county councillors in Devon. The responses are used to draw a distinction between community focused and more traditional members. In addition, conclusions are drawn about the extent to which their behaviour matched th…
Local Government Modernisation
Situation and task in young children's talk∗
Two studies were conducted in which the speech of 3‐to 4‐year‐old, black Head Start children was compared in two situations; a trip to a local supermarket and discussion about the trip upon their return to the classroom. Comparisons were carried out using a method of speech‐act analysis developed by Dore (1977) to supplement more standard psycholinguistic measures of language development. Results of the first study showed that speech in the two s…
Pioneering New Politics or Rearranging the Deckchairs? The 2007 National Assembly for Wales Election and Results
This article analyses the campaign, results and outcome of the 2007 elections to the National Assembly for Wales. It discusses the constitutional and legislative framework of devolution in Wales, the election campaign and opinion polls. There is extensive analysis of the election results, the performance of each of the main and some of the smaller parties. Shifts in representation of women and ethnic minority AMs and departures and new arrivals a…
Internationalism in psychology
A concern with international cooperation in psychology has been present since the beginnings of psychology as a science. In this article, the author traces the development of international cooperation from the late 19th century to the present day to document the interesting ways in which the forms of collaboration have always been related to the large social and political contexts of which they are a part. This historical material is followed by …
Psychology at Leningrad State University
The articles in this issue of Soviet Psychology are all selected from a small publication of the psychology department at Leningrad University, Problems of General, Social, and Engineering Psychology, No. 2 (Leningrad University Press, 1968)
Development of free recall learning in children
Cultural differences and inferences about psychological processes
Measures of category clustering in free recall
The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking
Culture and Memory1
The problem of specifying the ways in which culture influences cognitive processes is discussed using the relation between culture and memory as a special case. Beginning with scattered suggestions from the anthropological and psychological literature, a research strategy combining ethnolinguistic and experimental psychological techniques is described. Mnemonic performance is shown to depend upon a host of situational (cultural) factors which mus…
Cognitive Consequences of Formal and Informal Education
On Bernstein's class, codes and control
Basil Bernstein, ed. Class, Codes and Control Volume 1: Theoretical Studies towards a Sociology of Language. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1971. xiv + 239 pp. Tables, figures, notes, references, and index. $10.00. Basil Bernstein, ed. Class, Codes and Control Volume 2: Applied Studies towards a Sociology of Language. Primary Socialization, Language and Education Series. London: Routledge a…
Toward an Experimental Anthropology of Education
Story recall in young Black and White children
Theorizing about Socialization of Cognition
The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking
Characteristics and Significance of Touch for People who Have Lost Their Vision, Hearing, and Speech
The following selection is from a monograph prepared by members of the Department of Psychology at Leningrad University in the late 1950s. Although dated in some respects, Yarmolenko's discussion of the Soviet and Western literature on sensation and cognition in the blind, deaf, and dumb serves as an excellent introduction to the way Soviet psychologists treat sensation as an integral part of the study of cognition. It also illustrates another ba…
The cognitive consequences of education
Culture and Thought
Soviet developmental psychology
About this special issue
Writing and Formal Operations
Opening ParagraphThe Islamic brotherhoods common in North Africa take a variety of forms south of the Sahara, but even at the very fringes of Muslim, penetration the great orders such as the Qaddiriyya have a part to play in the lives of the believers. One function they have is to bring adherents back to what members of the order see as the essential tenets of the faith, to purge practice of the inevitable compromises made with local 'pagan' cult…
Letter/Appointment of Prof. E. Mphahlele
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Situation and task in young children's talk∗
Two studies were conducted in which the speech of 3‐to 4‐year‐old, black Head Start children was compared in two situations; a trip to a local supermarket and discussion about the trip upon their return to the classroom. Comparisons were carried out using a method of speech‐act analysis developed by Dore (1977) to supplement more standard psycholinguistic measures of language development. Results of the first study showed that speech in the two s…
Cognitive Development
Unpackaging literacy
Introduction
The articles in this issue of Soviet Psychology were provided through the kindness of Alexander V. Zaporozhets, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Moscow University and Director of the Institute of Preschool Education of the USSR. The originals were published in Ukrainian; except in secondary sources, they have never appeared in another language, not even Russian
The Best Path to Man A Report from a Children's Home
With this article by Karl Levitin, a journalist who specializes in science reporting, we introduce the readers of Soviet Psychology to a really remarkable program of research that has been going on in the USSR for some time: the work of Professor Meshcheryakov with the deaf-blind is one of the largest research programs of its type. The fact that Mr. Levitin could hold a conversation with psychology graduate students to discuss the course of their…
Sex and Marital Status Differences in Death Anxiety
Previous research in death anxiety has suggested that marital roles, and especially the male's role as the family provider, influence the sex differences in death attitudes. This study investigated the effect of marital roles by comparing sex differences in death anxiety scores of married persons with and without children, and of single persons. In addition, twenty demographic covariates were investigated to observe their possible effect on death…
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