ISBN:
9780631223306
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (314 p.)
Parallel Title:
Print version Learning for Life in the 21st Century : Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education
DDC:
306.43
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community. Gordon Wellsis Professor of Education at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Guy Claxtonis Visiting Professor of Learning Science at the University of Bristol.
Abstract:
United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community
Description / Table of Contents:
Learning for Life in the 21st Century; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education; Part I Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory; 2 Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn; 3 Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives; 4 The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions; 5 From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education; 6 Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment; 7 Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post- Vygotskian Perspective
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development8 Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education; 9 Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling; 10 Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings; 11 Developing Dialogues; 12 Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas; 13 A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling; 14 Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice; Part III Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education16 Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity- Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers; 17 Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School; 18 Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers; 19 Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching; 20 Afterword; Bibliography
Description / Table of Contents:
Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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