Contexts for Learning : Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development.
Title:
Contexts for Learning : Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development.
Author:
Forman, Ellice A.
ISBN:
9780198023159
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Contents:
CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION: Integration of Individual, Social, and Institutional Processes in Accounts of Children's Learning and Development -- PART I: Discourse and Learning in Classroom Practice -- CHAPTER 1 Vygotsky in Classroom Practice: Moving from Individual Transmission to Social Transaction -- CHAPTER 2 First-Grade Dialogues for Knowledge Acquisition and Use -- CHAPTER 3 Dynamics of Discourse: Literacy and the Construction of Knowledge -- CHAPTER 4 Discourse, Mathematical Thinking, and Classroom Practice -- CHAPTER 5 Creating and Reconstituting Contexts for Educational Interactions, Including a Computer Program -- COMMENTARY: Time to Merge Vygotskian and Constructivist Conceptions of Knowledge Acquisition -- PART II: Interpersonal Relations in Formal and Informal Education -- CHAPTER 6 What Is Missing in the Metaphor of Scaffolding? -- CHAPTER 7 Deconstruction in the Zone of Proximal Development -- CHAPTER 8 Vygotsky, Hymes, and Bakhtin: From Word to Utterance and Voice -- CHAPTER 9 Vygotskian Perspective on Children's Collaborative Problem-Solving Activities -- CHAPTER 10 Toddlers' Guided Participation with Their Caregivers in Cultural Activity -- COMMENTARY: Away from Internalization -- PART III: Sociocultural Institutions of Formal and Informal Education -- CHAPTER 11 Institutional and Social Context of Educational Practice and Reform -- CHAPTER 12 Generation and Transmission of Shared Knowledge in the Culture of Collaborative Learning: The Fifth Dimension, Its Play-World, and Its Institutional Contexts -- CHAPTER 13 Activity Settings of Early Literacy: Home and School Factors in Children's Emergent Literacy -- CHAPTER 14 A Sociocultural Approach to Agency -- COMMENTARY: Interface between Sociocultural and Psychological Aspects of Cognition -- AFTERWORD: Direction of Post-Vygotskian Research -- NAME INDEX -- A -- B -- C.
D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- SUBJECT INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory. Sociocultural theory began with the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues but has been significantly expanded and modified recent years. Since the late 1970s, sociocultural theory has challenged existing notions of cognitive development by suggesting that psychological functioning is specific to its social context and is dependent on the mastery of culturally defined modes of speaking, thinking, and acting. For this volume, the editors have assembled a list of contributors noted for their distinguished work in sociocultural theory and research. Taken together, they offer a multifaceted perspective on an emerging research paradigm and argue for a fundamental reconceptualization of mind and its development. Three main themes are explored in detail: discourse and learning in classroom practice, interpersonal relations in formal and informal education, and the institutional context of learning. Research findings are consistently discussed in terms of their theoretical implications. The book includes three commentary chapters and an afterword that propose future directions for sociocultural research. This book will be of interest to a wide range of researchers, educators, and students concerned with the theory and practice of developmental, educational, social, and cognitive psychology.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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