Learning in cultural context : family, peers, and school /
"Learning in Cultural Context explores vital links between informal education and academic progress through a variety of ethnic lenses. This timely volume focuses on three interrelated areas: cultural and learning practices at home, culture-based teaching strategies in preschool education, and...
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New York :
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers,
©2005.
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Series: | International and cultural psychology series
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Table of Contents:
- Cultural learning in context / Ashley E. Maynard
- I. CULTURAL PRACTICES AND WAYS OF LEARNING IN INFORMAL SETTINGS: Sociocultural contexts of learning / Mary Gauvain
- Sustainability of daily routines as a family outcome / Thomas S. Weisner, Catherine Matheson, Jennifer Coots, and Lucinda P. Bernheimer
- An ethnomodel of teaching and learning: apprenticeshiip of Zinacantec Maya women's tasks / Ashley E. Maynard and Patricia M. Greenfield
- II. CULTURAL APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING EARLY LEARNING TO PRESCHOOLERS: Ola Ka Inoa (the name lives) : cultural imputs, naming practices, and early education outcomes of Hawaiian children / Shawn Malia Kanaiaupuni and Iwalani Else
- Cultural transmission of social knowledge in preschool: a Costa Rican perspective / Helen M. Davis
- Features of teaching associated with significant gains in language test scores by Hawaiian preschool childen / Mary Martini
- Learning connections: a home-school partnership to enhance emergent literacy and emergent math skills in at-risk preschoolers / Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Dana M. Gorecki
- III. APPROACHES TO SUPPORTING LEARNING IN MIDDLE- AND HIGH-SCHOOL SETTINGS: "You cannot cheat the footwork": moral training in adolescent dance classes / Laurie Schick
- Enacting the five standards for effective pedagogy in a culturally relevant high school program / Lois A. Yamauchi, Tasha R. Wyatt, and Jacquelin H. Carroll
- Aligning practice to theory: attitudes of students in re-cultured and comprehensive high schools / Nina K. Buchanan.