A Cultural Historical Approach Towards Pedagogical Transitions

Author : Joanne Hardman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350164710

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A Cultural-Historical Approach Towards Pedagogical Transitions by Joanne Hardman Pdf

This book investigates pedagogical change across curricula and political transitions in the South African context, from 1994 to today. Tracing pedagogical transitions from post-apartheid to the demands of the 21st century, the book seeks to develop a novel approach to pedagogy that can meet the needs of students today. Adopting a cultural-historical lens, Hardman analyses the contradictions that arise due to transitions in the curriculum and describes the current state of teaching in primary schools in South Africa by focusing on how teachers teach scientific concepts. She goes on to examine the transitions from children's indigenous science/maths understanding to school science/maths understanding, developing a pedagogy that can transform the learning of mathematics and science in developing contexts. Building on theories from Vygotsky, Davydov, Feuerstein, Freire, Bruner and Hedegaard, Hardman develops a new and inclusive, decolonial pedagogical approach that can meet the needs of a multicultural and multilingual contexts around the world.

Author : Joanne Hardman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350164727

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A Cultural-Historical Approach Towards Pedagogical Transitions by Joanne Hardman Pdf

This book investigates pedagogical change across curricula and political transitions in the South African context, from 1994 to today. Tracing pedagogical transitions from post-apartheid to the demands of the 21st century, the book seeks to develop a novel approach to pedagogy that can meet the needs of students today. Adopting a cultural-historical lens, Hardman analyses the contradictions that arise due to transitions in the curriculum and describes the current state of teaching in primary schools in South Africa by focusing on how teachers teach scientific concepts. She goes on to examine the transitions from children's indigenous science/maths understanding to school science/maths understanding, developing a pedagogy that can transform the learning of mathematics and science in developing contexts. Building on theories from Vygotsky, Davydov, Feuerstein, Freire, Bruner and Hedegaard, Hardman develops a new and inclusive, decolonial pedagogical approach that can meet the needs of a multicultural and multilingual contexts around the world.

Author : Mariane Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350021464

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Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions by Mariane Hedegaard,Marilyn Fleer Pdf

Written by a team of international contributors and featuring case studies from a range of educational settings in Australia, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, and the USA, this edited book is the first in the field of early childhood and youth studies to draw on Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory to give insights into transitions in childhood, what they are and how they are differently experienced. Transitions are explored holistically so the chapters not only focus on the person transitioning but also the institutions in which the person is transitioning from and to, with a focus on schools and daycare. The contributors look at how societal values and policies impact these transitions and comparison are drawn between international settings. The book includes chapters on expatriate families, immigrant children, home-school transitions, the role of play and communities. Through interviews, case studies and the analysis of empirical material from fieldwork, Children's Transitions in Everyday Life and Institutions reflects on the best ways to engage children so that they may emerge as competent actors in their new settings and transition well.

Author : Pernille Juhl
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350188303

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Exploring Young Children’s Agency in Everyday Transitions by Pernille Juhl Pdf

This book presents new ethnographic research carried out with five children between one and five years old. It explores children's agency in relation to daily transitions across everyday life contexts such as home and day-care contexts. Based on this new research, Pernille Juhl shows how young children are active participants orientating in their everyday life transitions. She argues that we should understanding children as creative and transformative subjects co-creating together with co-participants such as parents, professionals and other children, the conditions under which they live. Juhl builds on theoretical work by Holzkamp, Stetsenko, Hedegaard and Vygotsky and covers a range of theoretical approaches and concepts in her analysis such as befindlichkeit, micromovements and embodied orientation. While the research was carried out in the Danish context, the broader theoretical discussions are relevant for early childhood contexts globally, with a focus on Europe and the USA.

Author : Marilyn Fleer,Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Hanne Værum Sørensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350199446

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Qualitative Studies of Exploration in Childhood Education by Marilyn Fleer,Mariane Hedegaard,Elin Eriksen Ødegaard,Hanne Værum Sørensen Pdf

This book uses the concept of exploration as a way of understanding transitions in children between the ages of 5 to 18 years old. Written by an international group of scholars from Australia, Brazil, China, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, India, Norway and the UK, the chapters offer a diverse set of case studies. The topics and themes covered include transitions in outdoor playtime, the transition to daycare, compassion in kindergarten, learning with fathers, transitions of Chinese traditional culture and disability. The chapters are organised into two parts, the first part covering macro transitions and the second covering micro-genetic transitions. The contributors show how both macro and micro-genetic transitions influence children's everyday lives, and how these different transitions open up new possibilities for play, learning and development. The contributors draw on Vygotsky's cultural historical theory and the understanding that children's cultural formation takes form in a dialectic relation between children's interests and motives and the institutional settings they participate in.

Author : Nikolai Veresov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789819706921

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Child Development Within Contexts by Nikolai Veresov Pdf

Author : May Britt Postholm,Kirsten Foshaug Vennebo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000721799

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Applying Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Educational Settings by May Britt Postholm,Kirsten Foshaug Vennebo Pdf

Applying Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Educational Settings harnesses research and development for educational improvement, bridging the gap between research and practice. Exploring how collaborations between researchers and practitioners can be used to co-construct solutions to real-world problems, this book considers key concepts in cultural historical activity theory (CHAT), including models as resources that can be used to build and facilitate collaboration between researchers and practitioners. The chapters of the book draw on research findings from the practices of learning communities in diverse educational settings: teacher education, the education of school leaders, early childhood education and driving teacher education. Applying Cultural Historical Activity Theory in Educational Settings is an excellent resource for researchers and practitioners seeking to construct new knowledge and develop practice, or wishing to expand their knowledge of CHAT.

Author : May Britt Postholm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004410213

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Research and Development in School by May Britt Postholm Pdf

Research and Development in School: Grounded in Cultural Historical Activity Theory intends to give student teachers, teachers and school leaders research knowledge about which methodologies (research approaches) and methods (data collection and analysis methods) they can use as tools when researching the day-to-day affairs of school and classroom practice.

Author : Ivy Schousboe,Ditte Winther-Lindqvist
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400765795

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Children's Play and Development by Ivy Schousboe,Ditte Winther-Lindqvist Pdf

This book provides new theoretical insights to our understanding of play as a cultural activity. All chapters address play and playful activities from a cultural-historical theoretical approach by re-addressing central claims and concepts in the theory and providing new models and understandings of the phenomenon of play within the framework of cultural historical theory. Empirical studies cover a wide range of institutional settings: preschool, school, home, leisure time, and in various social relations (with peers, professionals and parents) in different parts of the world (Europe, Australia, South America and North America). Common to all chapters is a goal of throwing new light on the phenomenon of playing within a theoretical framework of cultural-historical theory. Play as a cultural, collective, social, personal, pedagogical and contextual activity is addressed with reference to central concepts in relation to development and learning. Concepts and phenomena related to ZPD, the imaginary situation, rules, language play, collective imagining, spheres of realities of play, virtual realities, social identity and pedagogical environments are presented and discussed in order to bring the cultural-historical theoretical approach into play with contemporary historical issues. Essential as a must read to any scholar and student engaged with understanding play in relation to human development, cultural historical theory and early childhood education.

Author : Mariane Hedegaard,Seth Chaiklin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015061187715

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Radical-local Teaching and Learning by Mariane Hedegaard,Seth Chaiklin Pdf

The cultural-historical approach started in the 1930s by Lev Vygotsky, who held that learning and instruction are the means to development, is the foundation for the Radical-Local Theory of Teaching and Learning formulated by Mariane Hedegaard and Seth Chaiklin in the first part of the book. The central concern in this approach to education is how to integrate particular historical and cultural conditions that the children encounter into educational practices. The second half of the book is an extensive case study of an after-school programme for Puerto Rican primary students in East Harlem, New York conducted in a radical-local perspective. This programme focussed on the history of the community and of Puerto Rican immigration, and the study describes how it helped students become both more positive and more critical about their backgrounds. By acquiring basic academic skills in a theoretical framework the children learn how to analyse their own local situation, addressing not only immediate issues (housing conditions, family life, community dynamics) but also historical issues. Unlike apparently similar culturally responsive approaches to teaching underprivileged children, radical-local teaching explicitly uses subject matter teaching to encourage children's development in relation to their social conditions. Hedegaard and Chaiklin detail how they developed concrete lesson plans in a radical-local perspective, and enumerate the accomplishments as well as the difficulties they encountered in implementing this approach.

Author : Pauli Siljander,Kimmo Kontio,Eetu Pikkarainen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463008273

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Schools in Transition by Pauli Siljander,Kimmo Kontio,Eetu Pikkarainen Pdf

School is one of the most focal institutions in modern society. It is largely through the institutionalized forms of education that modern society attempts to secure and maintain its social and economic well-being and its valuable cultural life forms. In addition to this, school is the essential institution through which the future of a society is defined. Thus, at least when understood traditionally as a pedagogical institution, the school stands at the center of historically and socially constructed cultural life forms and at the brink of an unknown future: the determination of that future characterizes the pedagogical task of the school. It naturally ensues then, that modern discourses of the school have always been intertwined with the critical question of how past, present and future can be linked in educational practices so that schools can foster (in ever better ways) the well-being of individuals, societies and humanity. The chapters in this volume, despite the variety of viewpoints, share this critical view. The purpose of the volume is not to offer definite answers; rather it is to stress that to understand the role and functions of school in contemporary society and to orientate its transition, a well-founded critical evaluation of prevailing pedagogical practices and policy trends is required. This evaluation is vital for the future of school and society.

Author : Donald Parkerson,Jo Ann Pakerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135718060

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Transitions in American Education by Donald Parkerson,Jo Ann Pakerson Pdf

This book is a concise social history of teaching from the colonial period to the present. By revealing the words of teachers themselves, it brings their stories to life. Synthesizing decades of research on teaching, it places important topics such as discipline in the classroom, technology, and cultural diversity within historical perspective.

Author : Viv Ellis,Anne Edwards,Peter Smagorinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135281557

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Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development by Viv Ellis,Anne Edwards,Peter Smagorinsky Pdf

Teachers, both in and beyond teacher education programmes, are continual learners. As society itself evolves, new settings and the challenges they provide require new learning. Teachers must continually adapt to new developments that affect their work, including alterations to qualification systems, new relationships with welfare professionals, and new technologies which are reconfiguring relationships with pupils. Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development is an international volume which clarifies the purpose of initial (pre-service) teacher education and continuing professional development, and the role of universities and higher education personnel in these processes. An edited collection of chapters by leading researchers from the UK, the US and Europe, it gains coherence from its theoretical orientation and substantive focus on teacher learning. This book: demonstrates the contribution of sociocultural and cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) towards our understandings of teacher learning offers a strong exemplification of a research focus on teachers as learners in specific sociocultural settings shows what teachers learn, how they learn and where they learn, using specific research examples, in the context of broader interests in the development of professional practice and professional education. As the only volume now available that applies CHAT principles to teacher education and learning, Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Teacher Education and Development will be highly useful for teachers and teacher educators undertaking postgraduate and doctoral studies, particularly in the area of professional learning and development. It will also be of relevance to the continuing development of teachers and other school-based professionals.

Author : Donald Hugh Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815338244

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Transitions in American Education by Donald Hugh Parkerson,Jo Ann Parkerson Pdf

This book is a concise social history of teaching from the colonial period to the present. By revealing the words of teachers themselves, it brings their stories to life. Synthesizing decades of research on teaching, it places important topics such as discipline in the classroom, technology, and cultural diversity within historical perspective.

Author : Megan Adams,Gloria Quinones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351395182

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Collaborative Pathways to Friendship in Early Childhood by Megan Adams,Gloria Quinones Pdf

Early childhood is a time of wonder, excitement, adventure and learning. A time to experience social relations and friendships, and all of the emotions involved. The joy, and the excitement – of creating a common world with friends. A world of ‘what if’ and ‘as if’ moments that are accepted and built together, or rejected – leading to frustration, sadness and exclusion – the darker side of friendship. In this book, cultural-historical concepts are used to analyse the everyday lives of children. Inspired by contemporary ideas about moral imagination, Collaborative Pathways to Friendship in Early Childhood theorises friendship as a concept. Traditionally, studies about friendship in early childhood focus on relations built in educational settings. As a point of difference, Dr Adams and Dr Quinones introduce the conditions that are created for, with, and by young children as they move between everyday family life, and transition into education settings. Through narratives of internationally mobile families moving into Malaysia and established families in Mexico, varying perspectives of children, parents, teachers and principals are presented — culminating in a holistic understanding of friendship in early childhood. Providing insight into varied perspectives and processes involved when young children enter into friendships, this book will be of interest to researchers, post graduate students and teacher educators specialising in early childhood education, child psychology or social work.