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Misconceptions about a Curriculum-as-Inquiry Framework
In this article from Language Arts, July 1996, Jann Pataray-Ching and Mary
Roberson respond to the objection that an inquiry approach to curriculum is
simply not feasible. Drawing on actual teaching practices, they provide a
frame for critiquing common misconceptions about an inquiry-based curriculum. |
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Cole and Wertsch consider the similarities and differences between
the ideas of Piaget and Vygotsky, particularly with respect to the relationship
between individual and social factors. |
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A website organized by Engestrom at the University of Helsinki. This link takes you to an account of activity theory and its use as a basis for Developmental Work Research. |
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A chapter from the book of this title by Lois Holzman and Fred Newman |
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Learning and Teaching "Scientific Concepts": Vygotsky's Ideas Revisited This paper critiques Vygotsky's emphasis on teaching scientific concepts
by definition and argues, instead, for a greater place for linking the learning
of scientific concepts both to the practical activities in which they are
used and to the written genres in which they arise. |
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Scientific Concepts and Reflection Wim Wardekker suggests that too narrow a view has been taken of Vygotsky's
concern to teach scientific concepts. He argues that scientific concepts
were derived through reflection and need to be learned in the same way -
as part of an ongoing dialogue. |
| This is the final chapter of my book, Dialogic Inquiry, in which I review the development of Vygotsky's concept in recent work in sociocultural theory and consider its relevance for thinking about education. |
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From At-Risk to Excellence: Research, Theory, and Principles for Practice Roland Tharp, the Director of CREDE, presents an overview of the
principles that underlie the Center's mission to improve the education of
students at risk of educational failure. |
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Marilyn Chapman provides a helpful review of the discussion about learning and teaching written genres. |
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Why? To Whom? How? and When? Part of an issue of Language Arts that considers the role
of direct instruction in elementary classrooms. |
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Perspectives from the study of textual practices Geoff Williams reports on a study of children learning to read and
write and on the role of metalinguistic knowledge in the process. |
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Learning through Computer-Mediated Interaction |
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This file contains messages in sequence from a discussion on the sociocultural listserv (xmca) about the use of portfolio assessment. Not everyone was in favor. |
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In this paper, I argue that all learning should be seen as research.
From this perspective, students and teachers, as well as university professors,
learn through inquiry as they make meaning through action and discourse
in collaboration with others. |
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XMCA is a listserv for those interested in sociocultural theory and its applications in education, work and other areas. The link takes you to the mail archive, which is updated daily. All the messages in the discussion on public education are available in the archive for the current month (May 1999). |
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Education Review: A Journal of Book Reviews |