Learning in school-university partnership sociocultural perspectives /

• Main Author: Tsui, Amy.
• Other Authors: Edwards, Gwyn., Lopez-Real, Francis J., Kwan, Tammy.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Routledge, c2009.
• Subjects: College-school cooperation.; Teachers > Training of.; English teachers > Training of.; Educational sociology.; EDUCATION > Higher.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: ebrary; View fulltext via EzAccess; MyiLibrary

This volume looks at school-university partnerships from sociocultural perspectives of learning that view participation in social practice as fundamental to the process of learning. Its two major themes - school-university partnership and sociocultural and social theories of learning - have both bee...

Table of Contents:

• Contexts for learning in school-university partnership / Gwyn Edwards, Amy B.M. Tsui and Philip Stimpson
• Sociocultural perspectives of learning / Amy B.M. Tsui, Fran Lopez-Real and Gwyn Edwards
• On becoming a member of a community of practice / Gwyn Edwards and Amy B.M. Tsui
• Mentoring, learning and identity formation / Tammy Kwan, Fran Lopez-Real and Amy B.M. Tsui
• Tripartite conferences: positioning and activity systems / Fran Lopez-Real, Doris Law and Rosina Tang
• Mutual engagement and boundary crossing in lesson studies / Doris Law and Amy B.M. Tsui
• Connecting communities of practice / Albert Wong and Gwyn Edwards
• Sociocultural theories of learning revisited / Amy B.M. Tsui.