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Jacques Carpay Summary A hundred years ago William James in his well-known volume entitled Talks to Teachers severely denounced "those who hand down advice to teachers from above". According to him, a teacher's knowledge of psychological principles may make a negative, rather than a positive, contribution to her/his classroom performance. Psychology, James asserted, can only save a teac -
1voteAbstract  The phenomenal growth of information technology and globalization promises a future where education about diversity and difference will be very significant. In this information age where existing knowledge and technology are constantly being replaced in an ever changing interdependent global environment, the fundamentals of education are also changing. Education will focus on building new knowledge rather than passing on existing knowledge. The increasing interconnectedness between cultures and their concomitant intermixing as a result of globalization requires that pedagogies about cultural diversity also focus on creating new knowledge and meanings about cultures as they change. In this article, we discuss sociocultural theory as an alternative educational pedagogy that situates the teaching and learning of cultural diversity within rapidly changing local and global conditions. We argue that features of this theory are especially relevant to providing a guiding pedagogy for valuing difference in inclusive environments. We engage the literature on cross-cultural communication and collaboration between culturally diverse professionals and parents of children with disabilities to illustrate sociocultural perspectives on conceptualizing cultural differences and their interaction, and the possibilities for creating culturally inclusive partnerships and communities.
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The purpose of this four-year long ethnographic study was to examine classroom literature activities in English classes where teachers supported discussion of multiple interpretations to describe what role such open-forum discussion (Alvermann, 1989; Bridges, 1979) plays over time in developing students' creative and critical thinking. Of particular interest was how ten students moving from class to class and teacher to teacher made sense of the reading, writing and talking they encountered in classes during their high school years, what thinking they engaged in, and whether they used ways of thinking developed in literature class in their other school experiences. This report will focus on a descriptive-narrative analysis (Erickson, 1982) of individual students' developing inclinations and abilities to think in classroom activities over the first two years of the project. -
2voteCurrent conceptualizations of sociocultural theory draw heavily on the work of Vygotsky (1986), as well as later theoreticians (see, for example, Wertsch, 1991, 1998). According to Tharp and Gallimore (1988) "This view [the sociocultural perspective] has profound implications for teaching, schooling, and education. A key feature of this emergent view of human development is that higher order funct
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