Learning for Life in the 21st Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education
by Editor: Gordon Wells (University of California at Santa Cruz); Editor: Guy Claxton (University of Bristol)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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.
Table of Contents
| Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education | |
| Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn | |
| Becoming the Village Education Across Lives | |
| The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions | |
| From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education | |
| Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment | |
| Teaching, Learning and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective | |
| Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education | |
| Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling | |
| Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings | |
| Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas | |
| A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling | |
| Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practive | |
| Enquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education | |
| Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? : An Activity-Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers | |
| Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expantion of Opportunities for Learning After School | |
| Building a Community of Educators Versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicaultural Education for Preservice Teachers | |
| Afterword | |
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