The set of activities developed at Field College for addressing the difficulties faced by children who fail to learn to read during the first few years of elementary school is described in a number of publications. Of central importance are the three documents linked below. The first describes the overall project and several of its constituent projects. The second digs deeply into a particular model system for re-mediating reading difficulties that has found broad usage, and the third is a selection from Cultural Psychology: A Once and Future Discipline (Cole, 1996), which describes how LCHC members used theoretical principles to guide the construction of activities deliberately designed for educational purposes (an example of “applied cultural psychology”).
Selected Publications
- A Model System for the Study of Learning Disabilities (1982)
- A Model Systems Approach to Reading Instruction and the Diagnosis of Reading Disabilities (1983). Catherine A. King, Peg Griffin, Stephen Diaz, Michael Cole.
- From Observation and Analysis to Creating Model Activity Systems (1996). Michael Cole.
Read more in Chapter 6 and Chapter 7
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