Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community

by Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Turkanis, Leslee Bartlett

Overview

In lhis book, Barbara Rogoff puts into practice the theoretical account she 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, where she conducted extensive research into what is involved when people learn--students, parents, and teachers alike. Illustrated with observations by participants in this school, this book shows that children and adults learn by participating within a community of learners. Their experiences will speak to all those interested in school improvement and in how people learn through engaging together in activities of mutual interest.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190289584
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	09/26/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

1. Lessons about Learning as a Community
An Orientation: Origins, Principles, and Structure of a Community of Learners
2. Constructing Ourselves: the Beginning of an Evolving Philosophy
3. An Orientation to Principles-in-Action
4. "Seeing" the Big Picture
How Is This a Community?
5. A Home and School Community
6. Coming Home to School
7. Setting the Scene: Coordinating a Classroom Community
8. The Classroom Community "in Control"
Children Learning in a Community
9. Creating Curriculum with Children
10. Caring Conversations
11. Respect from Respect
12. "What about Sharing?"
13. Learning to Manage Time
14. Helping Children Learn to Make Responsible Choices
Teachers Learning about Teaching Children in a Community
15. Teaching by Learning from Children
16. Risking Saying "I don't know"
17. A New Teacher Learning to Share Responsibility with Children
Parents Learning Principles of Children's Learning in a Community
18. Becoming a Cooperative Parent in a Parent Cooperative
19. Kindergarten, Again
20. Parents' Learning about Children's Learning
21. Becoming an Adult Member in a Community of Learners
Teachers Learning about Parent Learning in a Community
22. Qualifying to Help People Learn: Becoming a Beginner
23. A New Teacher Learning to Share Responsibility with Parents
24. A Teacher Learning about Adult Learning
Communities Learning Together—Adults in the OC and Beyond, Creating Learning Communities
25. Teachers Learning Together, in Forming a Learning Community
26. Decision Making in a Learning Community
27. OC Teachers Take Their Learning to Other Schools
28. Never-ending Learning

Editorial Reviews

"Clearly presented and well-written, open to both general and specialist readers... Taking the full message of this book on board is not only a challenge to schooling but also to parenting and the wider society."—Professor Hazel Francis, Institute of Education, University of London

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