Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition /

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Imprint:Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
©2014
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 426 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Vienna series in theoretical biology
Vienna series in theoretical biology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11210028
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Other authors / contributors:Caporael, Linnda R., editor.
Griesemer, James R., editor.
Wimsatt, William C., editor.
ISBN:9781461952367
1461952360
0262314789
9780262314787
9781306140645
1306140641
9780262019552
0262019558
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:'Scaffolding' is a concept that is becoming widely used across disciplines. This book investigates common threads in diverse applications of scaffolding, including theoretical biology cognitive science, social theory, science and technology studies, and human development. Despite its widespread use, the concept of scaffolding is often given short shrift; the contributors to this volume offer a more fully developed analysis of scaffolding that highlights the role of temporal and temporary resources in development broadly conceived, across concepts of culture, cognition, and evolution.
Other form:Print version: Developing scaffolds in evolution, culture, and cognition. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] 9780262019552