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" Learning for Life in the 21st Century : "
Gordon Wells
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BL
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733099
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b552894
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Gordon Wells
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Learning for Life in the 21st Century : : Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education.\ Gordon Wells
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Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008
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(314 pages)
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0470752084
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: 9780470752081
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Includes index.
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Learning for Life in the 21st Century; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education; Part I Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory; 2 Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn; 3 Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives; 4 The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions; 5 From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education; 6 Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment; 7 Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post- Vygotskian Perspective. Part Ii Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development8 Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education; 9 Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling; 10 Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings; 11 Developing Dialogues; 12 Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas; 13 A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling; 14 Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice; Part Iii Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning. 15 Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education16 Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity- Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers; 17 Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School; 18 Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers; 19 Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching; 20 Afterword; Bibliography.
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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.
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Education.
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Educational anthropology.
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LB45.G673 2008
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Gordon Wells
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Guy Claxton
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