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  • Transactional Psychology of Education

    Toward a Strong Version of the Social

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this theory, affect was to play a central role, there was to be a primacy of social relations, and anything mental (mind, thought, self, other, knowledge) was an event rather than a thing. This is essentially a transactional ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adventures of Mind and Mathematics

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This monograph uses the concept and category of “event” in the study of mathematics as it emerges from an interaction between levels of cognition, from the bodily experiences to symbolism. It is subdivided into three parts.The first moves from a general characterization of the classical approach to mathematical cognition and mind toward laying the foundations for a view on the mathematical mind ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Curriculum*-in-the-Making

    A Post-constructivist Perspective

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series Book 5 - Critical Praxis and Curriculum Guides
    Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation of just what is happening in a classroom. Events* are understood to be in the making so we ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Concrete Human Psychology

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a goal that he expresses in a small, unfinished text of the same name. This book articulates the foundation of and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Designing Communities

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the same time, the teachers collectively had come to realize that their science teaching was not as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms

    Mathematics in the Flesh

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at later points in their lives. Roth's analyses explain how geometry, an objective science, arises anew ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Authentic School Science

    Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. This book documents learning and teaching in open-inquiry learning environments, designed with the precepts of these educational thinkers in mind. The book is thus a first-hand report of knowing and learning by ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Science Education during Early Childhood

    A Cultural-Historical Perspective

    by Wolff-Michael Roth, Maria Ines Mafra Goulart, Katerina Plakitsi ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. Paradigmatic notions of science education, with their focus on biologically governed development and age-specific accession to scientific concepts, have perpetuated this state of affairs. This book offers a very different ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Language, Learning, Context

    Talking the Talk

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential?Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions for all involved; whether it affects the linguistic development of a student or the effective delivery of ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Talking Science

    Language and Learning in Science Classrooms

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Reverberations: Contemporary Curriculum and Pedagogy
    This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which we navigate and know the world-the very medium through which we do science.In Talking Science Wolff ... Read more

    $43.79 USD

  • Rethinking Scientific Literacy

    by Wolff-Michael Roth, Angela Calabrese Barton ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific literacy that is inextricably linked with social responsibility and community development. The goal if not ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work

    Implications for and Applications in STEM Education

    by Wolff-Michael Roth ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially know what to make of graphs, there is a great deal of uncertainty and scientists struggle in trying to make sense of what to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD