Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development

by Norris Minick, C. Addison Stone, Ellice A. Forman

Book Overview

This provocative new work on children's development in context presents recent theoretical developments and research findings that have been generated by sociocultural theory. Sociocultural theory began with the work of L.S. Vygotsky and his colleagues but has been significantly expanded and modified recent years. Since the late 1970s, sociocultural theory has challenged existing notions of cognitive development by suggesting that psychological functioning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195109775
• ISBN13: 9780195109771
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"