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Title Culture and competence : contexts of life success / edited by Robert J. Sternberg and Elena L. Grigorenko.

Imprint Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  155.92 C899c 2004    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 300 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ecocultural perspective on the development of competence -- What do children do when they cannot go to school? -- Cultural competence--tacit, yet fundamental : self, social relations, and cognition in the US and Japan -- Understanding the cognitive and social aspects of intercultural competence -- Cultural deep structure of psychological theories of social development -- Culture and cognition : Performance differences and invariant structures -- Cultural practice of intelligence testing : Problems of international export -- Intellectual, attitudinal and interpersonal aspects of competence in the United States and Japan -- Why cultural psychology is necessary and not just nice : the example of the study of intelligence -- Culturally situated cognitive competence : a functional framework -- Ethnoepistemologies at home and at school -- Reflections on culture & competence.
Subject Cognition and culture.
Added Author Sternberg, Robert J.
Grigorenko, Elena.
ISBN 1591470978
Standard No. UKM bA4Z7420

 
    
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