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The construction zone : working for cognitive change in school

The 'construction zone' is the shared psychological space within which teachers construct environments for their students' intellectual development and students construct deeper understandings of the cultural heritage embodied in the curriculum. The core of the book is a set of analyses of children's developmental changes during classroom lessons and individual tutorials.
Print Book, English, 1989
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989
xv, 169 p.
9780521362665, 9780521389426, 0521362660, 0521389429
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Series foreword; Foreword Shedon H. White; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Building tasks into curriculum units; 3. Making goals happen; 4. Basic concepts for discussing cognitive change; 5. Assessment versus teaching; 6. Social mediation goes into cognitive change; 7. How the West has won; 8. Conclusions for a cognitive science of education; References; Author index; Subject index.