Acaba de salir el issue 4 del Human Development 2012 y trae varios artículos interesantes, como siempre. En el contexto de un debate que se desarrolló cuando invité a Rebeca Mejía-Arauz a mi clase de Desarrollo Cognitivo de la maestría en Cognición, Aprendizaje y Desarrollo que tenemos en la PUCP, quiero poner la referencia de uno de ellos porque aborda precisamente el tema del debate: la relación entre educación, procesos cognitivos y culturas tradicionales. Un tema espinoso sin duda, sobre el que hay diversos puntos de vista.
No he leído aun el artículo pero me parece muy sugerente. Aquí va la referencia y el abstract:
Guavain M. y Munroe, R. (2012). Cultural Change, Human Activity, and Cognitive Development. Human Development 55, 205-228
Abstract
Differential cognitive performance across cultural contexts has been a standard result in comparative research. Here we discuss how societal changes occurring when a small-scale traditional community incorporates elements from industrialized society may contribute to cognitive development, and we illustrate this with an analysis of the cognitive performances and everyday activities of children from four communities representing a range of such incorporations. We discuss this research in relation to ontogenesis and sociogenesis and propose several processes or mechanisms that may account for cultural and cognitive change in the context of societal absorption of elements common in industrialized settings. Our perspective centers on the claim that changes in cultural features are inextricably linked to changes in human activity and cognition. We also suggest that changes that align small-scale traditional societies in this way provide certain cognitive advantages for individuals raised in, and continuing to live in, traditional societies, and such advantages show up in many cognitive measures. We also use this information in discussing explanations for the Flynn effect. We conclude with consideration of some implications of the perspective we offer.
Y ojo que viene con dos comentarios:
Cultural Change, Human Activity, and Cognitive Development (Patricia M. Greenfield) y
Approaches to Reduction in Treatments of Culture-Cognition Relations: Affordances and Limitations (Geoffrey Saxe) Leer más
