Construction Zone Working for Cognitive Change in School

Name: Construction Zone Working for Cognitive Change in School
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ISBN: 9780521389426

ISBN-10: 0521389429

ISBN-13: 9780521389426

Edition: 1989

Authors: Denis Newman, Peg Griffin, Michael Cole, John Seely Brown, Christian Heath

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This study addresses the process of developmental change as it occurs in the course of classroom lessons. The book aims to answer such questions as what forms of teacher-student interaction are most effective for producing developmental transformations in children's understanding. It also addresses why knowledge derived from psychological experiments on children's learning and development so often seems irrelevant to classroom teachers and how it is possible to reconcile Piaget's emphasis on the central role of independent intervention and constructive activity with learning theorists' emphasis on environmental feedback as the motive force of change. Assuming that intellectual development…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/28/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 188
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

John Seely Brown is Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp and former director of its Palo AltoResearch Center (PARC), and co-author of The Social Life of Information.



Series foreword


Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction



Building tasks into curriculum units



Making goals happen



Basic concepts for discussing cognitive change



Assessment versus teaching



Social mediation goes into cognitive change



How the West has won



Conclusions for a cognitive science of education


References


Author index


Subject index