Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community

by Barbara Rogoff, Carolyn Goodman Turkanis, Leslee Bartlett

Overview

This book advances the theoretical account that Barbara Rogoff 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, to examine how students, parents, and teachers learn by being engaged together in a community of learners. Building on observations by participants in this school, this book reveals how children and adults learn through participation in activities of mutual interest. The insights will speak to all those interested in how people learn collaboratively and how schools can improve.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195344615
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/26/2001
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	5 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

"The central feature of the OC philosophy, Rogoff tells us, is collaboration, with flexible roles and learning of adults facilitated in the same ways as children's learning. That is, groups work with mutual interest on cooperatively organized activities. That's good practice, and in detailing one way it can be achieved the book provides insights to stimulate reflection, discussion, and innovation in our own schools." —Infant and Child Development

"[This book] is cleary presented and well-written, open to both general and specialist readers." —British Journal of Educational Psychology

"This book on a unique school in Utah with a strong open-classroom history examines how the school has developed into an excellent model of parents, teachers, and students working in a learning community to enhance student learning and achievement. . .The approach focuses on developing students who will be lifelong learners able to work in a collaborative/cooperative environment. . .The authors are well qualified to write on this topic; the book is very readable and would interest PK-12 educators interested in knowing more about this approach to student learning. This book would be an asset as a supplementary text and reference for higher education/teacher education programs."—CHOICE

"...a fascinating lens through which to look at an inspired application of group work principles."—Social Work with Groups

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