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Learning for life in the 21st century : sociocultural perspectives on the future of education

Title
  1. Learning for life in the 21st century : sociocultural perspectives on the future of education / edited by Gordon Wells and Guy Claxton.
Published by
  1. Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

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Additional authors
  1. Wells, Gordon, 1935-
  2. Claxton, Guy.
Description
  1. viii, 304 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Summary
  1. The 20 eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community.
Subject
  1. Educational anthropology
  2. Learning
  3. Education > Aims and objectives
  4. Learning
  5. Bildung
  6. Zukunft
  7. Aufsatzsammlung
  8. Lernen
  9. Pädagogische Anthropologie
  10. Onderwijs
  11. Voorschools onderwijs
  12. Leren
  13. Volwasseneneducatie
  14. Socioculturele factoren
Contents
  1. 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.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-296) and index.