Charting the Agenda

Description

Harry Daniels brings together contributions from a team of internationally recognised experts to explore Vygotsky's work and its influence and impact on educational practice.

Reviews

"…a rich fount of ideas; any reflective practitioner will enjoy it for its challenge and for the multi-disciplinary view of Vygotsky's theory applying to education." - British Psychological Society DECP Newsletter

"…this collection is going to be an important addition to the growing evidence of the value of Vygotsky's theories in education." - Language, Culture and Curriculum

Contents

Preface Harry Daniels 1. Reading Vygotsky Tony Burgess 2. A social psychology of special education Peter Evans 3. The individual and the organization Harry Daniels 4. Continuing the dialogue: Vygotsky, Bakhtin, and Lotman James V. Wertsch and Ana Luiza Bustamante Smolka 5. Vygotsky's contribution to the development of psychology V.V. Davdov and V.P. Zinchenko 6. Peer interaction and the development of mathematical understandings: A new framework for research and educational practice Geoffrey B. Saxe, Maryl Gearhart, Mary Note and Pamela Paduano 7. The practice of assessment Ingrid Lunt 8. Learning in primary school Andrew Pollard 9. Learning English as an additional language in multilingual classrooms Josie Levine

Related Subjects

1. Developmental Psychology
2. Education Studies