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Introduction

PART I Cultural psychology: a framework for understanding teaching and learning

1 L.S. Vygotsky and contemporary developmental psychology

JAMES V. WERTSCH

PEETER TULVISTE

2 Cognitive development and formal schooling: the evidence from cross-cultural research

MICHAEL COLE

3 Thinking with and through artifacts: the role of psychological tools and physical artifacts in human learning and cognition

ROGER SALJO

4 Thinking in niches: sociocultural influences on cognitive development

MARY GAUVAIN

PART II Teaching and learning: scaffolding and the zone of proximal development

5 A theory of teaching as assisted performance

ROLAND THARP

RONALD GALLIMORE

6 How do teachers help children to learn? An analysis of teachers' interventions in computer-based activities

NEIL MERCER

EUNICE FISHER

7 Vygotsky in classroom practice: moving from individual transmission to social transaction

LUIS C. MOLL

KATHRYN F. WHITMORE

8 What is missing in the metaphor of scaffolding?

C. ADDISON STONE

PART III Experimental studies of collaborative learning and peer interaction

9 Cognitive approaches to group work

PAUL LIGHT

KAREN LITTLETON

10 Exploring Vygotskian perspectives in education: the cognitive value of peer interaction

ELLICE A. FORMAN

COURTNEY B. CAZDEN

11 Peer interactive minds: developmental, theoretical, and methodological issues

MARGARITA AZMITIA

PART IV Collaborative learning and peer interaction in the classroom

12 Sociocultural processes of creative planning in children's playcrafting

JACQUELYN BAKER-SENNETT

EUGENE MATUSOV

BARBARA ROGOFF

13 Constructing scientific knowledge in the classroom

ROSALIND DRIVER

HILARY ASOKO

JOHN LEACH

EDUARDO MORTIMER

PHILIP SCOTT

14 Sharing cognition through collective comprehension activity

GIYOO HATANO

KAYOKO INAGAKI

15 Learning and teaching mathematics in the information era

KATHRYN CRAWFORD

Index