Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
1 Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education 1 Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton
Part I Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory 19
2 Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn 21
Guy Claxton
3 Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives 34 Jay L. Lemke
4 The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions 46 Holbrook Mahn and Vera John-Steiner
5 From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education 59 Pablo del Río and Amelia Álvarez
6 Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment 73 Caroline Gipps
7 Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective 84 Anna Stetsenko and Igor Arievitch
Part II Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development 97
8 Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education 99 Margaret Carr
9 Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow’s Schooling 112 Ruqaiya Hasan
10 Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings 127 Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura Sterponi
11 Developing Dialogues 141 Neil Mercer
12 Supporting Students’ Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas 154 Paul Cobb and Kay McClain
13A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling 167 Seth Chaiklin
14 Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice 181 Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. Tharp
Part III Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning 195
15 Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education 197 Gordon Wells
16 Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity-Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers 211 Yrjö Engeström, Ritva Engeström and Arja Suntio
17 Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School 225 Katherine Brown and Michael Cole
18 Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers 239 Eugene Matusov and Renée Hayes
19 Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching 252 Andy Northedge
20 Afterword 265 Luis C. Moll
Bibliography 271
Index 297