Context,culture, and competence: Answers to criticism |
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| Authors: | Ed Elbers |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Development and Socialization, University of Utrecht, P.O. Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | In this rejoinder, I respond to criticisms by Moshman, Kanner and Wertsch, Grossen, Säljö, and Siegler of my article on  The Development of Competence and Its Social Context. I argue that an adequate theory of the development of competence must explain the relationship between the spontaneous construction of knowledge by the child and the transmission of knowledge to the child. The transmission of knowledge to children resides in the provision of cultural perspectives on reality. These perspectives give children opportunities to construct knowledge and provide scope within which to widen their intellectual skills. From this viewpoint, several problems are discussed, such as the role of social context in education and intellectual performance, the development of numerical abilities, and the characteristics of test situations. |
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| Keywords: | knowledge construction social context numerical competence intellectual skills |
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