Learning In Cultural Context

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on How People Learn II: The Science and Practice of Learning
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309459679

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How People Learn II by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Science Education,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Committee on How People Learn II: The Science and Practice of Learning Pdf

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades have seen an explosion of research that has important implications for individual learning, schooling, workforce training, and policy. In 2000, How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition was published and its influence has been wide and deep. The report summarized insights on the nature of learning in school-aged children; described principles for the design of effective learning environments; and provided examples of how that could be implemented in the classroom. Since then, researchers have continued to investigate the nature of learning and have generated new findings related to the neurological processes involved in learning, individual and cultural variability related to learning, and educational technologies. In addition to expanding scientific understanding of the mechanisms of learning and how the brain adapts throughout the lifespan, there have been important discoveries about influences on learning, particularly sociocultural factors and the structure of learning environments. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures provides a much-needed update incorporating insights gained from this research over the past decade. The book expands on the foundation laid out in the 2000 report and takes an in-depth look at the constellation of influences that affect individual learning. How People Learn II will become an indispensable resource to understand learning throughout the lifespan for educators of students and adults.

Author : Alex Kozulin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521528836

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Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context by Alex Kozulin Pdf

This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications.

Author : Ashley E. Maynard,Mary I. Martini
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780387275505

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Learning in Cultural Context by Ashley E. Maynard,Mary I. Martini Pdf

This volume focuses on the cultural aspects of learning and cognitive processes, examining the theory, methods, findings, and applications in this area. The chapter authors cover such topics as family context, peer interaction and formal education.

Author : A. W Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0995269238

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Teaching in a Digital Age by A. W Bates Pdf

Author : Mads Jakob Kirkebæk,Xiang-Yun Du,Annie Aarup Jensen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462094406

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Teaching and Learning Culture by Mads Jakob Kirkebæk,Xiang-Yun Du,Annie Aarup Jensen Pdf

This book is based on educational research conducted by researchers from the Department of Learning and Philosophy and the Confucius Institute for Innovation and Learning at Aalborg University. Empirically, it reports on different approaches to teaching and learning of culture, including a student-centered task-based problem-based learning (PBL) approach, a digital technology-supported approach and more. It also reports on how, when teaching and learning culture, teachers’ professional identity and the informal teaching and learning environment impact the teaching and learning of culture in different educational settings from primary school to university. A central theme in the book is the power of context. The studies illustrate in multiple ways, and from different angles, that “culture is not taught in a vacuum or learned in isolation”, but may be influenced by many factors both inside and outside the classroom; at the same time, culture also influences the context of the learning. The context may be “invisible” and hide itself as tacit knowledge or embedded values, or it may be very visible and present itself as a fixed curriculum or an established tradition. No matter what forms and shapes the context takes, the studies in this book strongly indicate that it is essential to be aware of the power of context in teaching and learning culture in order to understand it and negotiate it. This book suggests that teachers should not try to limit or avoid contextual influences, but instead, should explore how the context may be integrated into and used constructively in the teaching and learning of culture. This allowance of context in the classroom will allow for teachers, students, subjects and contexts to enter into a dialogue and negotiation of meaning that will enrich each other and achieve the established goal – acquisition of cultural awareness and intercultural understanding.

Author : Michael Cole,John Gay,Joseph A. Glick,Donald W. Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251990940

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The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking by Michael Cole,John Gay,Joseph A. Glick,Donald W. Sharp Pdf

Author : Deborah Phillips,Nancy A. Crowell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1998-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788148712

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Cultural Diversity and Early Education by Deborah Phillips,Nancy A. Crowell Pdf

Author : Michael Cole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Ethnopsychology
ISBN : 0416755100

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The Cultural Context of Learning and Thinking by Michael Cole Pdf

Author : Linda King
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789401142571

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Learning, Knowledge and Cultural Context by Linda King Pdf

This special issue of the International Review of Education includes contri butions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and on the interplay between the so-called "traditional" and "modern" ways of educa tion. It starts from the assumption that cultures are not static, that they are shifting and mutating, and that the Western need to encapsulate "other cultures", which found its most extreme form in their being frozen in time and boxed behind glass in museums of ethnology, has distorted our under standing of the way in which different cultures create, recreate and repro duce knowledge. The basic premise of this position is that there is no such thing as a pure culture, and that all cultures borrow, lend, adapt, and distort distinct elements from other cultures. All cultures, moreover, provide their members with ways of learning about that culture, which include elements such as language, forms of social organisation, and ritual spaces for the trans mission of specialised knowledge. Meaning may be shifted over time, but that in itself is a product of the passage of knowledge through history. Indeed, much meaning is cyclical and reinterpretive so that cultures may look back to a mythological past which they assumed gave them their essential identity but which may be part fact, part fantasy, and part fiction. This is then rein terpreted in the light of changed and changing historical circumstances.

Author : Caroline Barratt-Pugh,Mary Rohl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000257779

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Literacy Learning in the Early Years by Caroline Barratt-Pugh,Mary Rohl Pdf

Children's early experiences of literacy have a major influence on how they continue to learn as they grow older. Children enter early childhood programs and school with a wealth of knowledge and understandings of literacy. It is critical that early childhood professionals and teachers recognise and build on this learning. Literacy Learning in the Early Years offers a practical introduction to literacy issues for early childhood professionals and teachers working with children aged 0-8, in childcare, preschool and school contexts. The authors take a socio-cultural approach to literacy learning, emphasising the importance of understanding the various contexts in which young children are involved in literacy practices. They explore a range of literacy issues that early childhood professionals and teachers are facing in the 21st century. These issues include the role of play in literacy learning, how to use information communication technologies with young children and ways of introducing critical literacy. Literacy is understood broadly and readers are encouraged to explore a range of print and other media with children. With chapters from both Australian and UK authors Literacy Learning in the Early Years is an ideal professional reference and student text. a very useful introductory text to literacy development in early childhood. It is clearly written and accessible to the wide range of professionals working with young children as well as to teachers and parents. It will be a valuable text in training at initial and in-service levels on a wide range of courses. Lesley Abbott, Professor of Early Childhood Education, Manchester Metropolitan University this well written, comprehensive book combines many practical examples of learning to do literacy and suggestions for action, and all the while engages the reader with questions and starting points for reflection. Susan Hill, Associate professor, The Centre for Studies in Literacy, University of South Australia

Author : Stafford Hood,Rodney Hopson,Henry Frierson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623969370

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Continuing the Journey to Reposition Culture and Cultural Context in Evaluation Theory and Practice by Stafford Hood,Rodney Hopson,Henry Frierson Pdf

Racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity has become of global importance in places where many never would have imagined. Increasing diversity in the U.S., Europe, Africa, New Zealand, and Asia strongly suggests that a homogeneity-based focus is rapidly becoming an historical artifact. Therefore, culturally responsive evaluation (CRE) should no longer be viewed as a luxury or an option in our work as evaluators. The continued amplification of racial, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity and awareness among the populations of the U.S. and other western nations insists that social science researchers and evaluators inextricably engage culturally responsive approaches in their work. It is unacceptable for most mainstream university evaluation programs, philanthropic agencies, training institutes sponsored by federal agencies, professional associations, and other entities to promote professional evaluation practices that do not attend to CRE. Our global demographics are a reality that can be appropriately described and studied within the context of complexity theory and theory of change (e.g., Stewart, 1991; Battram, 1999). And this perspective requires a distinct shift from “simple” linear cause-effect models and reductionist thinking to include more holistic and culturally responsive approaches. The development of policy that is meaningfully responsive to the needs of traditionally disenfranchised stakeholders and that also optimizes the use of limited resources (human, natural, and financial) is an extremely complex process. Fortunately, we are presently witnessing developments in methods, instruments, and statistical techniques that are mixed methods in their paradigm/designs and likely to be more effective in informing policymaking and decision-making. Culturally responsive evaluation is one such phenomenon that positions itself to be relevant in the context of dynamic international and national settings where policy and program decisions take place. One example of a response to address this dynamic and need is the newly established Center for Culturally Responsive Evaluation and Assessment (CREA) in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CREA is an outgrowth of the collective work and commitments of a global community of scholars and practitioners who have contributed chapters to this edited volume. It is an international and interdisciplinary evaluation center that is grounded in the need for designing and conducting evaluations and assessments that embody cognitive, cultural, and interdisciplinary diversity so as to be actively responsive to culturally diverse communities and their aspirations. The Center’s purpose is to address questions, issues, theories, and practices related to CRE and culturally responsive educational assessment. Therefore, CREA can serve as a vehicle for our continuing discourse on culture and cultural context in evaluation and also as a point of dissemination for not only the work that is included in this edited volume, but for the subsequent work it will encourage.

Author : Francisco Rios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 0585068089

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Teacher Thinking in Cultural Contexts by Francisco Rios Pdf

Author : Unesco Institute for Education
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110666463

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Learning, Knowledge, and Cultural Context by Unesco Institute for Education Pdf

This is a collection of papers on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between traditional and modern education.

Author : Jennifer E. Lansford,Doran C. French,Mary Gauvain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1433833034

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Child and Adolescent Development in Cultural Context by Jennifer E. Lansford,Doran C. French,Mary Gauvain Pdf

This book examines how culture affects several aspect of human development, such as cognition, emotion, sociolinguistics, peer relationships, family relationships.

Author : Antoinette Miranda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317631996

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Consultation Across Cultural Contexts by Antoinette Miranda Pdf

Consultation Across Cultural Contexts addresses the challenges that school psychologists face when working in unfamiliar settings and diverse cultural contexts. Establishing first the necessity of understanding and respecting these contexts, this book provides both theoretical background knowledge and a wealth of technical and practical information, animated by first-hand accounts. Divided into sections that touch upon topics such as difficult teachers and the role of poverty, race, and class, the selections include examples from diverse school ecologies, schools in various states of transition, resource challenged schools, and more.