Learning in Classrooms: A Cultural-Historical Approach Book

	List of Figures and Tables	9
	Contributors	12
1	Learning through Acting within Societal Traditions: Learning in Classrooms	15
2	The Gendering of Social Practices in Special Needs Education	39
3	Instruction and Learning in Elementary School	59
4	Expanding the Predominant Interpretation of ZPD in Schooling Contexts: Learning and Mutuality	77
5	Orchestrating Voices and Crossing Boundaries in Educational Practice: Dialogic Research on Learning about the Kobe Earthquake	97
6	Culturally Sensitive Teaching within a Vygotskian Perspective	121
7	Science Literacy in the Making in an Inner-City Youth Programme: 'They Take the Time to Show us how a Plant Grows'	144
8	Transforming Ethnocultural Tradition in a Modern Environment: Context for Personal Development	166
9	Mathematical Cognition in the Classroom: A Cultural-Historical Approach	191
10	From Monologic to Dialogic Learning: A Case Study of Japanese Mathematics Classrooms	211
11	How School Students Become Subjects of Cooperative Learning Activity	229
12	Construction of Distance, Time and Speed Concepts: A Cultural-Historical Approach	244
13	Teacher-Student Interaction, Text Comprehension and Memory: A Semiotic Analysis of Instructional Actions	258
14	Children's Self-Concept as Gendered and Contextual: Socio-Moral Self-Concepts among 12-year-old Finnish Girls and Boys	280
15	The Construction of Contemporary Subjectivity: Interactions between Knowledge and School Environment	307
16	A Relational Approach to Understanding Classroom Practice	321
17	Teachers' Experience of School and Knowledge through Childhood Memories	339
18	Teacher's and Researcher's Interactions in Classroom Discourse: Different Ways of Organizing Salient and Problematic Actions	352
	Index	370