Synopses & Reviews
This book brings together a variety of contemporary approaches to learning that by and large follow the structuralist path to understand learning, a path both ecological and dynamic. The book views the learning processes as they take place in the course of personenvironment relationships.
Table of Contents
General Introduction. The Structured Nature of Learning: History Revisited / Jaan Valsiner and Hans-Georg Voss -- Pt. I. Theoretical Foundations. Learning, Development, and Synergetics / Hans-Georg Voss. Reflexivity and Learning: Problems, Perspectives, and Solutions / Ursula Christmann and Norbert Groeben. Structured Organisms and Structured Environments: Developmental Systems and the Construction of Learning Capacities / Robert Lickliter -- Pt. II. Structure of Learning and Structure of Environment. Observation and Learning: Theoretical Paradoxes of Observational Learning / Toni Goodyear. Computer Systems as Learning Environments / Siegfried Greif -- Pt. III. Discourse and the Structure of Learning: The Processes of Co-Construction in Human Development. Understanding the Co-Constructive Nature of Human Development: Role Coordination in Early Peer Interaction / Zilma Moraes Ramos de Oliveira and Maria Clotilde Rossetti-Ferreira. The Dynamics of School Learning / Bert van Oers.