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Hi Laure- Glad that ref was useful, and the pointer toward everyday was certainly in the spirit of the times. AND, its a big deal now among a lot of people such as Phillip Bell and his colleagues at the LIFE center at the U of Washington. We here at LCHC are also considering the problems of cross-setting/context/situation/activity analysis, so keep us posted! For an early approach to these sorts of issues, you might check out: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/People/MCole/Ecological-Niche.PDF On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Laure Kloetzer <laure.kloetzer@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > I read with great interest yesterday Ann Brown's (Brown and French > 1979) early paper, attached by Mike, and I was struck by a point which > is beyond the scope of my initial question, her call to study everyday > cognition: > "If we are to predict, diagnose and maximise the learning potential > and life success of midly retarded persons (...) we'll need to refine > and extend the diagnostic procedures we use to estimate academic > intelligence so that we may alleviate school problems for as many as > possible. In addition, we must also consider the "end point" of > cognitive development for those not academically inclined. We need to > know what the minimum cognitive competencies demanded by everyday life > are, so that we can predict who will fail, diagnose the source of > failure, and attempt to prepare the less able child to meet the > demands of everyday life more adequately". > > Last July I tried to promote the interest of studying everyday, > mundane cognition at ICT (International Conference on Thinking) and > had almost zero success: no response rate at all. My arguments were > that both from a practical and from a theoretical point of view, > studying how for example conditionals were used in real life > conditions would bring lots of insights. Cognitive researchers > listened to me politely (or left the speaking hall). My lab director > had told me before : "are you sure you want to go there ????" and I > said "yes, thinking is something to important to be left to cognitive > psychologists only". I still believe it is important to move forward > on studying everyday cognition, which has been done a lot for the > thinking of expert practitioners for example or professional > reasoning, but not in a systematic, integrated research program, to my > current knowledge. Or has it ? > > Well, just to share how Ann Brown's comments softened my isolation > feeling from last summer... > > Cheers, > LK > __________________________________________ > _____ > xmca mailing list > xmca@weber.ucsd.edu > http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca > __________________________________________ _____ xmca mailing list xmca@weber.ucsd.edu http://dss.ucsd.edu/mailman/listinfo/xmca