...much more sceptical about the relation between experiment and process, resorting to the generalization that 'cultural differences in cognition reside more...its absence in another' (Cole et al., 1971, p. 233). I believe this statement to be true, but its acceptance should not obscure two important unresolved...

...from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (Chapter 1 1 ) claim that "cultural differences reside more in the situations to which particular...applied than in the existence of a process in one group and its absence in another." The idea of a situation, in this context, seems implicitly to contain...

...cultures. Assuming that cognitive processes are universal (Cole and Scribner, 1974, p. 193), they argue that "cultural differences in cognition reside more...its absence in another" (Cole et al., 1971, p. 233). This enphaais on the particular, and culturally relative, nature of cognitive abilities has meant that...

...conclusion that cultural differences in cognition reside more in the situations to uihich particular processes are applied than in the existence of a process...group and its absence in another" (Cole et al. 1971, 233). Instead of abandoning the claim of difference, anthropologists are maintaining it while at the...

...Cole, Gay, Glick and Sharp (1971) as a result of research they carried out among the Kpelle of Liberia: that 'cultural differences in cognition reside more...in one cultural group and its absence in another'. This is essentially my own conclusion (in the previous section) : it is no more than what one would...

...them, and that they have occasion to do often" (p. xi), and concluded their volume with the proposition that "cultural differences in cognition reside more...in one cultural group and its absence in another" (p. 233). Their "context specific approach" is characterized as a "formulation that retains the basic...

...educational failure by minorities both in the United States and internationally. This important idea, 169 "that cultural differences in cognition reside more in the situations to which cognitive processes are applied" than in the presence or absence of a process in a particular cultural...

...learning and memory. When we stopped to take stock of our own second-generation research, we concluded that "cultural differences in cognition reside more...cultural group and its absence in another" (Cole, Gay, Click, and Sharp, 1971, p. 233). Note how neatly hedged this summary is. We did not deny the possibility...

...by Scribner and Cole (1974) many years ago: Cognitive differences reside more in the situations in which particular cognitive processes are applied than in the existence of a process in a cultural group and its absence in another. Organizing classroom discourse around the idea that scientific...

...supports the myth of the childlike primitive. What the studies do show might be summarized in these words: "Cultural differences in cognition reside more in...in one cultural group and its absence in another." 45 No longer can nonliterate peoples be thought to be childlike. Indeed, the approach of many contemporary...