A Look Back at Ecological Validity
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A Look Back at Ecological Validity

05 Jan A Look Back at Ecological Validity

Posted at 01:31h in Activity Theory, Learning Environments, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology of Becoming, Publications, Vygotsky, Wittgenstein by

While I don’t own the article I wrote for the recent journal Mind, Culture and Activity (the publisher does), I do have “permission” to share the online link to it. The first 50 people to go there can read it!  (How generous publishers are.) I titled it “Musings on ecological validity (with a little help from my friends).” I think you’ll enjoy this personal look back at Michael Cole’s Lab and the work of the development community.

Here’s the official summary:

This essay consists of a series of short cultural-philosophical meditations on psychology and its proper unit of study, an issue of great concern to the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) throughout its decades of work. The Lab’s claim that experimental cognitive psychology is ecologically invalid is juxtaposed to other LCHC conceptual challenges to psychology and the negative impact it has on people’s lives-as-lived, as well as challenges from Vygotsky and Wittgenstein.

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