Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL – as access to content, often content tested; access to resources; or access to instructional processes – the authors reconceptualize OTL in terms of interaction among learners and elements of their learning environments. Drawing on socio-cultural, sociological, psychometric, and legal perspectives, this book provides historical critique, theory and principles, and concrete examples of practice through which learning, teaching, and assessment can be re-envisioned to support fair OTL for all students. It offers educators, researchers, and policy analysts new to socio-cultural perspectives an engaging introduction to fresh ideas for conceptualizing, enhancing, and assessing OTL; encourages those who already draw on socio-cultural resources to focus attention on OTL and assessment; and nurtures collaboration among members of discourse communities who have rarely engaged one another's work.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780521706599
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-521-70659-9
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 24.04.2008
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2008
- Serie: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 622 g
- Seiten: 384
- Format (B x H x T): 152 x 229 x 23 mm
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