Learning in cultural context : family, peers, and school /

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Imprint:	New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2005.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 280 p.) : ill.
Language:	English
Series:	International and cultural psychology series International and cultural psychology series.
Subject:	Learning -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies. Learning, Psychology of -- Cross-cultural studies. Learning, Psychology of. Learning -- Social aspects. Cross-cultural studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8875781

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Other authors / contributors:	Maynard, Ashley, 1972- Martini, Mary I., 1949-
ISBN:	9780387275505 0387275509 0306486830 9780306486838 0306486849 (ebook) 9780306486845 (ebook)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	In these ten articles, contributors examine the ways that teaching and learning are central to transmit culture. They emphasize using social interaction, cultural tools, and history in children's development, based on the premise that learning is a cultural process that happens through participation. The articles about learning in informal settings.
Other form:	Print version: Learning in cultural context. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2005 0306486830 9780306486838

Table of Contents:

Cultural learning in context / Ashley E. Maynard
I. CULTURAL PRACTICES AND WAYS OF LEARNING IN INFORMAL SETTINGS: Sociocultural contexts of learning / Mary Gauvain
Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome / Thomas S. Weisner, Catherine Matheson, Jennifer Coots, and Lucinda P. Bernheimer
An ethnomodel of teaching and learning: apprenticeshiip of Zinacantec Maya women's tasks / Ashley E. Maynard and Patricia M. Greenfield
II. CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING EARLY LEARNING TO PRESCHOOLERS: Ola Ka Inoa (the name lives) : cultural imputs, naming practices, and early education outcomes of Hawaiian children / Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni and Iwalani Else
Cultural transmission of social knowledge in preschool: a Costa Rican perspective / Helen M. Davis
Features of teaching associated with significant gains in language test scores by Hawaiian preschool children / Mary Martini
Learning connections: a home-school partnership to enhance emergent literacy and emergent math skills in at-risk preschoolers / Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Dana M. Gorecki
III. APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING LEARNING IN MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL SETTINGS: "You cannot cheat the footwork": moral training in adolescent dance classes / Laurie Schick
Enacting the five standards for effective pedagogy in a culturally relevant high school program / Lois A. Yamauchi, Tasha R. Wyatt, and Jacquelin H. Carroll
Aligning practice to theory: attitudes of students in re-cultured and comprehensive high schools / Nina K. Buchanan.

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