Rousing Minds to Life : Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

Tharp, Roland G.; & Gallimore, Ronald

Published by Cambridge University Press (1988), Cambridge, 1988

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orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 23x15cm, xii,317 pp Contents: Teaching, Schooling, and Literacy: A Unified Theory of Education;The redefinition of teaching and schooling; A theory of teaching as assisted performance; The means of assisting performance; The social organization of assisted performance; Language, literacy, and thought; Part II. Practice: A school organized for teaching: the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program: The activity setting of the instructional conversation: developing word and discourse meaning; The orchestration of activity settings: learning and social interaction in the whole group and independent centers; The interpsychological plane of teacher training; Assisting teacher performance through the ZPD: a case study; The intrapsychological plane of teacher training: the internalization of higher-order teaching skills; The schools in mind and society. ["Rousing Minds to Life is the education textbook for the '90s: A powerful synthesis of the theoretical advances in Vygotskian theory as applied to every aspect of teaching, learning, and schooling. Drawing on studies from preschool and elementary school through the university seminar, and on their own successful experience with thousands of students over two decades, this text integrates all recent work in the Vygotskian tradition with basic concepts in American and British behaviorism, cognitive science,anthropology, and sociolinguistics.," - Publisher's description] Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rousing Minds to Life : Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1988), Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1988
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included