Contexts for learning

ContributorsIntroduction: Integration of Individual, Social and Institutional Processes in Accounts of Children's Learning and Development, Norris Minick, C. Addison Stone, and Ellice A. FormanPART 1: Discourse and Learning in Classroom Practice 1. Vygotsky in Classroom Practice: Moving from Individual Transmission to Social Transaction, L.C. Moll and K.F. Whitmore2. First-Grade Dialogues for Knowledge Acquisition and Use, A.S. Palinscar, A.L. Brown and J.C. Campione3. The Dynamics of Discourse: Literacy and the Construction of Knowledge, G.M. Chang and G. Wells4. Discourse, Mathematical Thinking, and Classroom Practice, P. Cobb, T. Wood and E. Yackel5. Creating and Reconstituting Contexts: Educational Interactions Including a Computer Program, P. Griffin, A. Belyaeva and G. SoldatovaCommentary: Time to Merge Vygotskian and Constructivist Conceptions of Knowledge Acquisition, G. Hatano...