Dual Approaches to Development in Context

Robert Cohen, professor of psychology at Memphis State University (Tennessee), is editor of The Development of Spatial Cognition. n Alexander W. Siegel, professor of psychology and director of the training program in developmental psychology at the University of Houston (Texas), is coeditor, with P. R. Costanzo, of a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology titled “Social Context, Social Behavior and Socialization. ” w Eugene Matusov, graduate student in psychology at the University of California, Santa Crux;, is recipient of a Jonathan Jacobs Foundation dissertation fellowship. Matusov is coauthor, with]. Baker-Sennett and B. Rogoff, of the chapters “Sociocultural Processes of Creative Planning in Children’s Playcrafting” in P. Light and G. Butterworth (Eds.) Context and Cognition: Ways of Learning and Knowing and ‘Planning as Developmental Process” in H. Reese (Ed.) Advances in Child Development, Vol. 24. n Barbara Rogoff, professor of psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, served as 19851991 editor of the Newsletter of the Society for Research in Child Development. Rogoff is author of Apprenticeship in Thinking: Cognitive Development in Social Context; coeditor, with J. Lave, of Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context; and coeditor, with J. V. Wertsch, of Children’s Learning in the “Zone of Proximal Development.”