naa a22 4500 510781187 CHVBK 20180411083248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11422-012-9437-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11422-012-9437-8 Teo Tang National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Natural Sciences and Science Education (Academic Group), 1 Nanyang Walk, NIE7-03-83, 637616, Singapore, Singapore aut Different perspectives of cultural mediation: implications for the research design on studies examining its effect on students' cognition [Elektronische Daten] [Tang Teo] In this forum, I extend Tao, Oliver, and Venville's paper Chinese and Australian children's understanding of the earth: a cross cultural study of conceptual development to discuss the different views on culture and cultural mediation. I tease out nuances in the viewpoints to suggest three ways to theoretically frame studies examining cultural mediation of students' cognition. Specifically, cultural mediation may be attributed to innate psychological attributes, an accretion of cultural elements, or the social interaction process. Each of these ideas represents a theoretical lens and has implications for the research design of studies relating cultural mediation to cognition. In the final section of this forum paper, I show how a study conducted from the symbolic interactionist viewpoint underscoring cultural mediation as a social interaction process might unfold. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Culture nationallicence Cultural mediation nationallicence Cognition nationallicence Symbolic interactionism nationallicence Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 295-305 1871-1502 8:2<295 2013 8 11422 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9437-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-012-9437-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Teo Tang National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Natural Sciences and Science Education (Academic Group), 1 Nanyang Walk, NIE7-03-83, 637616, Singapore, Singapore aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cultural Studies of Science Education Springer Netherlands 8/2(2013-06-01), 295-305 1871-1502 8:2<295 2013 8 11422 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer