Learning exists to enable an organism to adapt itself to an unpredictable environment in which it's going to live. To learn is to form an internal model of the external world.| merlin.rebrovic.net
Alexander R. Luria conducted ethnographic research in 1931 and 1932 in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan (Soviet Union). A natural experiment was happening between villages as some were illiterate / oral while members of others started communes and attended basic school. Luria’s work was released in 1976 as Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundation. Illiterate or oral subjects prioritized direct and situational experience as opposed to abstract and conceptual thinking. They: Identif...| Merlin Rebrović