Learning Together : Children and Adults in a School Community

Rogoff, Barbara; Turkanis, Carolyn Goodman; Bartlett, Leslee

ISBN 10: 0195160312 / ISBN 13: 9780195160314

Published by Oxford University Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning Together : Children and Adults in a School Community
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195160312
• ISBN 13: 9780195160314
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff presented in her highly acclaimed book, Apprenticeship in Thinking. Here, Rogoff collaborates with two master teachers from an innovative school in Salt Lake City, Utah, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged together in a community of learners. Building on observations by participants in this school, this book reveals how children and adults learn through participation in activities of mutual interest. The insights will speak to all those interested in how people learn collaboratively and how schools can improve.

About the Author

Barbara Rogoff is UCSC Foundation Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Kellogg Fellow, and Editor of Human Development. Her books Apprenticeship in Thinking (OUP, 1990), Learning Together (OUP, 2001), and The Cultural Nature of Human Development (OUP, 2003) have received awards from the American Psychological Association and the American Educational Research Association. Her current book, Developing Destinies, deepens the ideas presented in her previous books, building on her three decades of research on human development in a Mayan community in Guatemala.

Barbara Rogoff received the 2013 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Cultural and Contextual Factors in Child Development, from the Society for Research in Child Development.
The citation read: "For her brilliant insights about and specification of development as a cultural process;
For her highly influential research and writing underscoring the influences of parental practices;
For illuminating how inclusion and participation in adult settings are critical to children's development;
For underscoring the necessity of multicultural perspectives on development through her exemplary contributions to the development of ethnic minority scholars."