Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning. Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives.

Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

by Arnetha F. Ball (Editor), Sarah Freedman (Editor)

This represents a multidisciplinary collaboration that highlights the significance of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories to modern scholarship in the field of language and literacy. Book chapters examine such important questions as: What resources do students bring from their home/community environments that help them become literate in school? What knowledge do teachers need in order to meet the literacy needs of varied students? How can teacher educators and professional development programs better understand teachers' needs and help them to become better prepared to teach diverse literacy learners? What challenges lie ahead for literacy learners in the coming century? Chapters are contributed by scholars who write from varied disciplinary perspectives. In addition, other scholarly voices enter into a Bakhtinian dialogue with these scholars about their ideas. These 'other voices' help our readers push the boundaries of current thinking on Bakhtinian theory and make this book a model of heteroglossia and dialogic intertexuality.

Genres: Education

349 pages, ebook

First published August 23, 2004

Reviews

[Kyrstin Elizabeth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read three essays that were of interest to my studies. Found them to help clarify some of Bakhtin’s thoughts.

[Paul Richardson · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK, more reading on discourse Bakhtin

It's amazing how much of what is talked about in this book is slowly finding its way not only into the edu-reform conversation; much of this is landing visibly in schools as well