SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES EETP Vol. 14, 2019, No. 1(51) ISSN 1896-2327 / e-ISSN 2353-7787 DOI: 10.35765/eetp.2019.1451.02 ABSTRACT Culture shapes the properties of human cognition mainly due to the fact that the ontogenetic human development is based on the inter- action with the products of culture of a particular society in which a child is raised. Such interaction not only includes using the cultural resources of knowledge and skills, and acquiring language symbols with their ways of valuing and interpreting the world, but it also in- cludes the internalization of particular types of discursive formations through which typically human abilities to metacognition, re-descrip- tion of cognitive operations, and dialogic thinking, are developed. In this sense, we may speak of the child’s “cognitive socialisation” as the process of growing into the culture of thinking of a given community. Te main objective of the article is to show the way such socialisation functions in the family environment: from the broadest – polyadic aspect (understood as “apprenticeship in culture”), to the most pro- found, personal aspect understood as the “internalization” of cultural procedures and tools of thinking. Based on the systematic analysis of the available literature and examples of children’s utterances, the KEYWORDS cognitive socialisation, tools of thinking, cognitive scafolding, guided participation, apprenticeship in thinking Dorota Zdybel ORCID: 0000-0003-3322-7570 The Faculty of Education Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow Family as the Space of the Child’s Cognitive Socialisation – on the Process of Acquiring Cultural Tools of Thinking Submitted: 6.03.2019 Accepted: 23.04.2019 Suggested citation: Zdybel D. (2019). Rodzina jako przestrzeń socjalizacji poznawczej dziecka – o procesie przyswajania kulturowych narzędzi myślenia, „Edukacja Elementarna w Teorii i Praktyce”, vol. 14, no. 1(51), pp. 21–39. DOI: 10.35765/eetp.2019.1451.02