The Construction Zone: Working for Cognitive Change in School

by Peg Griffin, Michael Cole, Denis Newman, et al.

Book Overview

This study addresses the process of developmental change as it occurs in the course of classroom lessons. The book aims to answer such questions as what forms of teacher-student interaction are most effective for producing developmental transformations in children's understanding. It also addresses why knowledge derived from psychological experiments on children's learning and development so often seems irrelevant to classroom teachers and how it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521389429
• ISBN13: 9780521389426
• Release Date: April 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.0"