Author : Vera John-Steiner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0195307704
What is the true nature of thinking? Can it best be understood as a solitary activity of a lone individual? This book suggests that our grasp of creativity is impoverished because we fail to recognise the vital roles that partnerships, collaborations, friendships, and communities play in our thinking, learning, and understanding.
Author : Adolfo Tanzi Neto
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Social change
ISBN : 9781433170386
This book adds critical and social perspectives to Vygotsky's initial principles to expand his legacy to global contemporary needs such as a critical reflection from the perspective of social change, ethical-political situations of action power, and awareness of the social environment to actively change the existing forms of life.
Author : Catherine Clark
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 0429889690
First published in 1995. Notions of ‘inclusive schools’ and ‘schooling for diversity’ are rapidly gaining currency across the developed world as alternatives to traditional approaches to special needs education. This book explores the advances in our understanding of how schools can change and develop in order to include a wider range of students. By bringing together some of the foremost international writers and researchers in the field, it makes available to policy makers, practitioners and researchers the experiences from Australia, Europe, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.
Author : Mary Snell-Hornby
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027220565
"Translation Studies" presents an integrated concept based on the theory and practice of translation. The author adapts linguistic approaches and methods in such a way that they may be usefully employed in the theory, practice, and analysis of literary translation. The author develops a more cultural approach through text analysis and cross-cultural communication studies. The book is a contribution to the development of translation studies as a discipline in its own right.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Educators
ISBN :
Author : Michael G. Clyne
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110128550
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language.
Author : Mel Ainscow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,75 MB
Release : 2005-06-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134770243
Inclusive education has become a phrase with international currency shaping the content of conferences and national educational policies around the world. But what does it mean? Is it about including a special group of disabled learners or students seen to have 'special needs' (them) or is it concerned with making educational institutions inclusive, responsive to the diversity of all their students (us)? In this unique comparative study, the editors have brought together an international team of researchers from eight countries to develop case-studies which explore the processes of inclusion and exclusion within a school or group of schools set in its local and national context. The study includes classroom observation, the experiences of the school day of students and interviews with staff, students, parents and school governors. Through an innovative juxtaposition of the case-studies and commentaries on them, differences of perspective within and between countries are revealed and analysed. The study arose from a dissatisfaction with previous research, which presents 'national perspectives' or seeks findings that have global significance. This book avoids such simplification and draws attention to the problems of translation of practice across cultures. The editors start from an assumption of diversity of perspective which like the diversity of students within schools can be viewed as problematic or as a resource to be recognized and celebrated.
Author : Riikka Alanen
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 37,49 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The Russian psychologist L. S. Vygotsky (1896â "1934) has been one of the central figures in the recent shift from the cognitive to the social and the cultural in educational and psychological research. A. N. Leontievâ (TM)s (1903â "1979) activity theory has had a similar impact in the West. A. A. Leontievâ (TM)s (1936â "2004) psycholinguistic theories have also started to attract increasing attention. The ideas of these scholars have also made their mark on second and foreign language learning research outside Russia. However, there is no one widely accepted, monolithic Vygotskian or Leontievian theory. Furthermore, the nature and role of language in action and activity remain open for debate. This edited volume presents 19 chapters bringing together different views from a number of disciplines for a critical analysis and reappraisal of the relationship between language and action. The topics range from theoretical and methodological issues related to sociocultural and activity theoretical views of language to empirical research reports on classroom interaction, identity, language assessment, teacher education and second and foreign language learning. The overall aim of Language in Action: Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacy Today is to shed light on the nature of human action and activity and the role that language has in mediating and shaping what we think, do, and learn. At the same time, the book serves as a showcase of different socially oriented approaches to the study of what we as human beings are and what we do with language.
Author : Sharon Neumann Solow
Publisher :
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : David R. Cole
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 28,53 MB
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 113518433X
Offers information on the evolution of multi literacies and the state of literacy theory in relation to it. This book discusses the aims of multi literacies movement in 1996.
