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Human teaching and learning involve cultural communities, not just individuals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2015

Barbara Rogoff*
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064. brogoff@ucsc.eduhttp://people.ucsc.edu/~brogoff/

Abstract

Cultural accounts of how people facilitate learning extend beyond the five types of teaching outlined by Kline's target article. Rather than focusing so exclusively on individual teaching, cultural accounts examine the mutually constituting efforts of individuals who are teaching, together with those who are learning. Further, cultural research emphasizes the community contexts of people's arrangements for learning and their teaching/learning interactions.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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