Modelling Learning

Joan Travers Simon

ISBN 10: 3843382166 / ISBN 13: 9783843382168

Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2010, 2010

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Based on the author's empirically based research on children's literacy development at home and school, Joan Travers Simon (Ph.D.) postulates and critically reviews a model of learning, informed by cultural psychology and sociocultural theory. The transdisciplinary approach, complemented by diachronic and synchronic data analysis, brings to light potential variations between long-term and short-term development. It also stresses the importance of time as a complex variable in developmental issues in conjunction with the proactive, dialogic nature of social agents negotiating environmental cues at varying levels of consciousness. In an insightful manner, appealing to the various stakeholders in children's development, and particularly to practising and future teachers, the author convincingly argues for a reassessment of central notions regarding children's learning and how we as adults may best support such learning processes. 128 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Modelling Learning
• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing Dez 2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3843382166
• ISBN 13: 9783843382168
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 220W x 150H x 8D millimeters 220 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 8 millimeters depth
• Weight: 209 grams

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Synopsis

Based on the author's empirically based research on children's literacy development at home and school, Joan Travers Simon (Ph.D.) postulates and critically reviews a model of learning, informed by cultural psychology and sociocultural theory. The transdisciplinary approach, complemented by diachronic and synchronic data analysis, brings to light potential variations between long-term and short-term development. It also stresses the importance of time as a complex variable in developmental issues in conjunction with the proactive, dialogic nature of social agents negotiating environmental cues at varying levels of consciousness. In an insightful manner, appealing to the various stakeholders in children's development, and particularly to practising and future teachers, the author convincingly argues for a reassessment of central notions regarding children's learning and how we as adults may best support such learning processes.

About the Author

Researcher and novelist, Joan Travers Simon (Ph.D.) currently investigates children?s plurilinugal literacy development at home and school. She is also the first person worldwide to have rewritten a doctoral thesis, with the collaboration of her daughter, as a trilingual children?s book; Writing with Pia.