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.

Gordon Wells is Professor of Education at the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Guy Claxton is Visiting Professor of Learning Science at the University of Bristol.

List of Contributors

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Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education

1

(18)

Gordon Wells

Guy Claxton

Part I Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory

19

(78)

Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn

21

(13)

Guy Claxton

Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives

34

(12)

Jay L. Lemke

The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions

46

(13)

Holbrook Mahn

Vera John-Steiner

From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education

59

(14)

Pablo del Rio

Amelia Alvarez

Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment

73

(11)

Caroline Gipps

Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective

84

(13)

Anna Stetsenko

Igor Arievitch

Part II Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development

97

(98)

Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education

99

(13)

Margaret Carr

Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling

112

(15)

Ruqaiya Hasan

Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings

127

(14)

Clotilde Pontecorvo

Laura Sterponi

Developing Dialogues

141

(13)

Neil Mercer

Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas

154

(13)

Paul Cobb

Kay McClain

A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling

167

(14)

Seth Chaiklin

Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice

181

(14)

Stephanie Stoll Dalton

Roland G. Tharp

Part III Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning

195

(76)

Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education

197

(14)

Gordon Wells

Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity-Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers

211

(14)

Yrjo Engestrom

Ritva Engestrom

Arja Suntio

Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School

225

(14)

Katherine Brown

Michael Cole

Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers

239

(13)

Eugene Matusov

Renee Hayes

Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching

252

(13)

Andy Northedge

Afterword

265

(6)

Luis C. Moll

Bibliography

271

(26)

Index

297

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Learning for Life in the 21st Century Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education

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