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Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context

by Roland G. Tharp (Author), Ronald Gallimore (Contributor)

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    Illustrated 1991

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Addressing widespread discontent with contemporary schooling, Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore develop a unified theory of education and offer a prescription: the reconstitution of schools as 'educating societies'. Drawing on studies from the family nursery through the university seminar, and on their own successful experiences with thousands of students over two decades, their theory is firmly based in a culture-sensitive devellopmental psychology but seeks to integrate all the recent work in the Vygotskian tradition with basic concepts in cognitive science, anthropology, and sociolinguistics. One of the authors' primary resources is the Kamehameha Elementary Education Program (KEEP), generally regarded as the world's outstanding research and development program for elementary schooling.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 330
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 29 Mar 1991
ISBN 10: 052140603X
ISBN 13: 9780521406031

Media Reviews
'Rarely have I seen a book that blends so successfully the big educational picture with the micro-picture of the teacher-student encounter, and it does so with the purpose of changing the way teachers work with students. Rousing Minds to Life is an exceptional book.' Mike Rose, author of Lives on the Boundary
'This is probably the most interesting and important book we have on how the ideas of Vygotsky and others can be extended and applied to contemporary issues of education.' James Wertsch, Clark University
'In this book the authors achieve a powerful synthesis of theoretical advances in Vygotskian theory ... they have (also) provided psychologists with a significant new model of the teaching-learning process.' Vera John-Steiner, University of New Mexico
...perhaps the most important publication on teaching and teacher education to come out in the past five years...it forces the field to conceive of teaching in a new way. --Richard Shavelson, Past President of the American Education Research Association
Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that American education has failed to take developmental psychology seriously. Tharp and Gallimore have taken it seriously and have demonstrated in this book not only that teaching must take account of the developmental status of the pupil but also that proper teaching, particularly the teaching of literacy, is necessary for the stimulation of the cognitive development of the pupil. Choice
...perhaps the most important publication on teaching and teacher education to come out in the past five years...it forces the field to conceive of teaching in a new way. Richard Shavelson, Past President of the American Education Research Association
Lawrence Kohlberg wrote that American education has failed to take developmental psychology seriously. Tharp and Gallimore have taken it seriously and have demonstrated in this book not only that teaching must take account of the developmental status of the pupil but also that proper teaching, particularly the teaching of literacy, is necessary for the stimulation of the cognitive development of the pupil. Choice