Learning For Life In The 21st Century Book

	List of Contributors
1	Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education	1
Pt. I	Issues and Developments in Sociocultural Theory	19
2	Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn	21
3	Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives	34
4	The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions	46
5	From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education	59
6	Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment	73
7	Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post-Vygotskian Perspective	84
Pt. II	Pre-School and School-Age Learning and Development	97
8	Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education	99
9	Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling	112
10	Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings	127
11	Developing Dialogues	141
12	Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas	154
13	A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling	167
14	Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice	181
Pt. III	Post-Compulsory, Adult and Professional Learning	195
15	Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education	197
16	Can a School Community Learn to Master Its Own Future? An Activity-Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers	211
17	Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School	225
18	Building a Community of Educators versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre-service Teachers	239
19	Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching	252
20	Afterword	265
	Bibliography	271
	Index	297