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Informationen zum Autor Sivanes Phillipson is Associate Professor of Family Studies at the Faculty of Education! Monash University Clayton Campus.? Kelly Y. L. Ku is Assistant Professor in the Department of Education Studies at the Hong Kong Baptist University.Shane N. Phillipson is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education in Monash University. Zusammenfassung Using Vygotsky's theory as a conceptual framework to "construct" school achievement, this book puts forth a culturally relevant context for understanding developmental aspects of children’s school achievement and their implication to classroom practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Constructing educational achievement within a sociocultural framework of planes Sivanes Phillipson and Peter D. Renshaw Part 1: Cultural-historical Plane 2. Framing achievement when learning is unified: The concept of unity in Vygotsky's theory and methodology Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur 3. Family capital! child's personal agency! and the academic achievement of Chinese migrant childrenQiaobing Wu4. A psychometric understanding of sociocultural factors in test validity: The development of standardised test materials for Maori medium schools in New Zealand/Aotearoa Peter J. Keegan! Gavin T. L. Brown and John A. C. Hattie Part 2: Institutional Plane 5.Classroom chronotopes privileged by contemporary educational policy: Teaching and learning in testing times Peter D. Renshaw 6. Teacher self efficacy: Internalized understandings of competence Janet Draper Part 3: Social Plane 7. Parental expectations: The influence of the significant other on school achievement Sivanes Phillipson 8. Examining the Relations Between a Play Motive and a Learning Motive for Enhancing School Achievement: Doing 'School' at HomeMarilyn Fleer 9. Peer co-regulation of learning! emotion! and coping in small-group learning Mary McCaslin and Ruby Inez Vega 10. Teacher-student relationships and students' learning outcomes Atara Sivan and Dennis W. K. Chan 11. Social learning! language and instruction for adult learners where English is their second language Ian Hay! Rosemary Callingham and Frederick Wright12. Two instead of one ZPD: Individual and joint construction in the ZPD Aleksander Baucal Part 4: Personal Plane 13. When Lev Vygotsky meets Francis Galton: On the nature and nurture of reading development Simpson W. L.Wong 14. Education for Citizenship: An experiment in leadership development of pupils making the transition from primary to secondary school Jim O'Brien! Evgeniya Plotnikova! and Iain Mills15. How encouragement in everyday family practices facilitates Hong Kong-Australian children's motive for learning Pui Ling WongPart 5: Mental Plane 16. Cognitive style and achievement through a socio-cultural lens: A new way of thinking about style differences Elizabeth R. Peterson and Kane Meissel 17. Role of verbal reasoning in critical thinking Kelly! Y. L. Ku 18. Cognitive perturbation with dynamic modeling: A reconceptualization of conceptual change in science education Sandy C. Li and Jacky W. C. Pow Conclusion19. The role of culture in constructing educational achievement Sivanes Phillipson and Shane N. Phillipson ...
