Michael Cole

9.3k citations
154 papers · 6.5k · 3 hit papers · h-index 35

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Papers in

    • Educational and Psychological Assessments 16
    • Behavioral and Psychological Studies 11
    • Child and Animal Learning Development 10
    • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods 10
    • Early Childhood Education and Development 22

Michael Cole

140 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Michael Cole's Hit Papers

Cultural psychology: a once and future discipline? 1989 · 459 citations
4590+18+36Years since publication2505007501000

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Michael Cole
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  • Human Factors and Ergonomics 781
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 2.3k
  • Education 2.7k
  • General Psychology 119
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 849
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Michael Cole, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Mind in society: The development of higher psychological processes. L. S. Vygotsky.
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19781081
2
Cultural psychology: a once and future discipline?
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1989459
3
The Development of Children
1989379
4
Cultural differences and inferences about psychological processes.
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1971330
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Mind, culture, and activity : seminal papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition
1997309
6 1983218
7 2010216
8 1971192
9 1979181
10 1995149
11 1984149
12 1990148
13 1998148
14 2011115
15 1995108
16 1980103
17 1980101
18 1971100
19 200197
20 197894

About Michael Cole

Michael Cole is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Social Psychology, Human Factors and Ergonomics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, having authored 154 papers that have together received 6.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Early Childhood Education and Development (22 papers), Social Representations and Identity (19 papers), Innovative Education and Learning Practices (18 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (17 papers), Educational and Psychological Assessments (16 papers), Behavioral and Psychological Studies (11 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (10 papers) and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (10 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Human Factors and Ergonomics (781 citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (2.3k citations), Education (2.7k citations), General Psychology (119 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (849 citations). Michael Cole has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Sylvia Scribner, Vera John‐Steiner, Jerome S. Bruner, Yrjö Engeström, James V. Wertsch, Donald W. Sharp, Olga A. Vásquez, Peg Griffin, Jean M. Mandler and Charles Lave. Their work appears in journals such as Mind Culture and Activity, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Human Development, Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

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