Learning and practice
Subtitle: agency and identities
By: edited by Patricia Murphy and Kathy Hall.
Contributors: Murphy, Patricia, 1952-; Hall, Kathy, 1952-; Open University.
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9781847873651; 9781847873668
Subjects: Learning
Description: This is one of the course readers for the Open University course 'Curriculum Learning and Society' (E846). The book emphasizes the socially negotiated and embedded nature of meaning-making and how learners learn to use the cognitive tools of their cultural community through participation in social activity.
Notes: Published in association with the Open University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Curriculum: the case for a focus on learning / Robert McCormick, Patricia Murphy; title: Neuroscience and education / Usha Goswami; title: Meaning / Etienne Wenger; title: Thinking with the tools and institutions of culture / Barbara Rogoff; title: A sociocultural analysis of organistional learning / Nick Boreham, Colin Morgan; title: Gender issues in testing and assessment / Jannette Elwood; title: Portfolios and assessment in teacher education in Norway: a theory-based discussion of different models in two sites / Olga Dysthe, Knut Steinar Engelsen; title: Participationist discourse on mathematics learning / Anna Sfard; title: Literacies and masculinities in the life of a young working-class boy / Deborah Hicks; title: Positional identities / Dorothy Holland ... [et. al]; title: Gender and subject cultures in practice / Patricia Murphy; title: Science education as/for participation in the community / Wolff-Michael Roth, Stuart Lee; title: Growing up digital: how the web changes work, education and the ways people learn / John Seely Brown.