Learning for Life in the 21st Century (eBook, PDF)

Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education
Redaktion: Wells, Gordon; Claxton, Guy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470752081
• Artikelnr.: 38184949

Autorenporträt

Gordon Wells is Professor of Education at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Guy Claxton is Visiting Professor of Learning Science at the University of Bristol.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education: Gordon Wells And
Guy Claxton.
2. Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to
Learn: Guy Claxton.
3. Becoming the Village Education Across Lives: Jay L. Lemke.
4. The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions: Holbrook Mahn and
Vera John-Steiner.
5. From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education:
Pablo Del Río and Amelia Álvarez.
6. Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment: Caroline Gipps.
7. Teaching, Learning and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective: Anna
Stetsenko And Igor Arievitch.
8. Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood
Education: Margaret Carr.
9. Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some
Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling: Ruqaiya Hasan.
10. Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings:
Clotilde Pontecorvo And Laura Sterponi.
11.Developing Dialogues: Neil Mercer.
12. Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas: Paul
Cobb And Kay Mcclain.
13. A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling: Seth Chaiklin.
14. Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practive: Stephanie Stoll
Dalton and Roland G. Tharp.
15. Enquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education:
Gordon Wells.
16. Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? : An
Activity-Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School
Teachers: Yrjö Engeström, Ritva Engeström and Arja Suntio.
17. Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expantion of Opportunities
for Learning After School: Katherine Brown And Michael Cole.
18. Building a Community of Educators Versus Effecting Conceptual Change in
Individual Students: Multicaultural Education for Preservice Teachers:
Eugene Matusov And Renée Hayes.
19.Organising Excursions into Specialist Discourse Communities: A
Sociocultural Account of University Teaching: Andy Northedge.
20. Afterword: Luis C. Moll.

Rezensionen

"Throughout, the editors achieve their stated goals, moving fromthe conceptual to the practical, and from treating younger to olderage groups. Chapter contributors, from universities and researchcenters in seven countries including the US, appear to be expertsin their areas. They present both their own research findings andreviews of others' research. [...] The book is generally organizedwell, with a synoptic afterword by Luis Moll [...] Interestedreaders should find the book useful. Summing up: Recommended.Upper-division undergraduates and above." P. M. Socoski, CityCollege, Choice, March 2003

"Learning for Life in the 21st Century is an impressiveand ambitious book." Carey Jewitt, University of London,Educational Review, Vol.55, November 2003