Culture and cognitive development: Giyoo Hatano's insights and the questions they open

Jacqueline J. Goodnow*, Candi Peterson, Jeanette A. Lawrence

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    Abstract

    To bring out Giyoo Hatano's contributions to the understanding of culture and cognitive development, we note first his special style - thoughtful, inventive, and always focused on central issues and on combining theory with data - and then, for three areas, some of the conceptual advances he proposed. The areas have to do with ties between cognitive and social development (links between skills and identity provide the selected advance), the nature of expertise (adaptive expertise is the selected advance), and the place of what is 'naturally given' (selected is the emphasis on specifying what is biologically given, what is culturally ready-to-hand, and their interconnections). He will be missed both as a scholar and a person.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)16-22
    Number of pages7
    JournalHuman Development
    Volume50
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Feb 2007

    Keywords

    • Adaptive expertise
    • Culture and cognitive development
    • Natural givens

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