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)

• ISBN13: 9780470752081
• ISBN10: 0470752084
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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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