Craig, Anita P.

Dr. Anita Craig lectures at the University of Cape Town; she has taught and done research at various universities in and outside South Africa. She began her career as a cognitive psychologist and later read philosophy. Dr. Craig has published widely on the application of cognitive theory to education, methodology, epistemology, and identity.

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How Cultural Differences Shape the Reception of Knowledge

2007 0-7734-5714-3
This book, written to help teachers, is a psychology of knowledge and the learning process in children aged between 4 to 18 years. It deals with problems in the classroom such as: differences in the degree of social preparedness; different assumptions about work, space and time; and variations in intellectual learning levels. The book's goal is to help teachers identify, analyze, test and teach with these issues in mind.

What is the Self? A Philosophy of Psychology

2006 0-7734-5931-6
The studies presented here have a central point of departure: it is remarkable that we, as biological organisms in a social world, configure our lives in terms of selves. This work succeeds in bringing together different but related disciplines concerned with people and the histories and conditions of their lives.