Learning for Life in the 21st Century

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.

ISBN 0631223312   Pages 320 ISBN13 9780631223313 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Weight (grammes) 520 Imprint Blackwell Publishers   Published in Oxford Format Paperback   Height (mm) 244 Publication date 19 Apr 2002   Width (mm) 163 Library of Congress LB45.L418   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY 370.1   Academic level Undergraduate, Professional / Scholarly, Postgraduate DEWEY edition DC21

		List of Contributors
1		Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education by Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton		1
Pt. I		Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory		19
2		Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn by Guy Claxton		21
3		Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives by Jay L. Lemke		34
4		The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions by Holbrook Mahn and Vera John-Steiner		46
5		From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education by Pablo del Rio and Amelia Alvarez		59
6		Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment by Caroline Gipps		73
7		Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective by Anna Stetsenko and Igor Arievitch		84
Pt. II		Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development		97
8		Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education by Margaret Carr		99
9		Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling by Ruqaiya Hasan		112
10		Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings by Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura Sterponi		127
11		Developing Dialogues by Neil Mercer		141
12		Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas by Paul Cobb and Kay McClain		154
13		A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling by Seth Chaiklin		167
14		Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice by Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. Tharp		181
Pt. III		Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning		195
15		Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education by Gordon Wells		197
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"Throughout, the editors achieve their stated goals, moving from the conceptual to the practical, and from treating younger to older age groups. Chapter contributors, from universities and research centers in seven countries including the US, appear to be experts in their areas. They present both their own research findings and reviews of othersa research. [...] The book is generally organized well, with a synoptic afterword by Luis Moll [...] Interested readers should find the book useful. Summing up: Recommended. Upper--division undergraduates and above." P. M. Socoski, City College, Choice, March 2003 "Learning for Life in the 21st Century is an impressive and ambitious book." Carey Jewitt, University of London, Educational Review, Vol.55, November 2003

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