Research Catalog

Title

Learning for life in the 21st century : sociocultural perspectives on the future of education / edited by Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wells, Gordon, 1935-
• Claxton, Guy.

Description

viii, 304 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

The 20 eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.

Subject

• Educational anthropology
• Learning
• Education > Aims and objectives
• Learning
• Bildung
• Zukunft
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Lernen
• Pädagogische Anthropologie
• Onderwijs
• Voorschools onderwijs
• Leren
• Volwasseneneducatie
• Socioculturele factoren

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index.

Contents

Education for the learning age : a sociocultural approach to learning to learn / Guy Claxton -- Becoming the village : education across lives / Jay L. Lemke -- The gift of confidence : a Vygotskian view of emotions / Holbrook Mahn and Vera John-Steiner -- From activity to directivity : the question of involvement in education / Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez -- Sociocultural perspectives on assessment / Caroline Gipps -- Teaching, learning, and development : a post-Vygotskian perspective / Anna Stetsenko and Igor Arievitch -- Emerging learning narratives : a perspective from early childhood education / Margaret Carr -- Semiotic mediation and mental development in pluralistic societies : some implications for tomorrow's schooling / Ruqaiya Hasan -- Learning to argue and reason through discourse in educational settings / Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura Sterponi -- Developing dialogues / Neil Mercer -- Supporting students' learning of significant mathematical ideas / Paul Cobb and Kay McClain -- A developmental teaching approach to schooling / Seth Chaiklin -- Standards for pedagogy : research, theory and practice / Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. Tharp -- Inquiry as an orientation for learning, teaching and teacher education / Gordon Wells -- 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 -- Cultural historical activity theory and the expansion of opportunities for learning after school / Katherine Brown and Michael Cole -- Building a community of educators versus effecting conceptual change in individual students : multicultural education for pre-service teachers / Eugene Matusov and Renée Hayes -- Organizing excursions into specialist discourse communities : a sociocultural account of university teaching / Andy Northedge.

ISBN

• 0631223304
• 9780631223306
• 0631223312
• 9780631223313

LCCN

2001003978

OCLC

• ocm47271875
• 47271875
• SCSB-8899391

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library