informal Teaching and Learning

A Study of Everyday Cognition in A Greek Community

Rosemary C. Henze, Rosemary Henze (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

202 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-97272-8 (ISBN)

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Based on an ethnographic study conducted in a Greek community, this book celebrates the small ways people teach and learn while they are engaged in other, supposedly more important, activities. By examining the intricate ways in which knowledge and skills of everyday life are transmitted, it shows how family, community, and culture shape the cognitive world of learners. Beginning with a rich description of the community and its culture, the book then focuses on six contrasting episodes of informal instruction. Video and audiotaped scenes of learning to dance, learning to perform the healing art of cupping, and learning about kinship, for example, provide material for detailed analyses. The book demonstrates the interplay of culture and learning by exploring how the cultural theme of struggle and the use of different interpretive frames shaped informal instruction in this community and how, at the same time, processes of informal teaching and learning contributed to the evolving construction of culture by its members. Interpretive framing emerges as a key concept that studies of situated cognition must consider. Since formal and informal instruction are closely linked, the culturally specific ways of teaching and learning shown in informal instruction will help all educators meet the needs of diverse student bodies.

Rosemary C. Henze

Contents: Preface. How to Ring a Doorbell. The Communities. Fieldwork in Kiriakitsa and Trikala. Alitheia and Psemata (Truth and Lies). Teaching and Learning to Do. Teaching and Learning to Understand. Teaching and Learning to Use Language. The Particular and the General. Appendices: Variation in Informal Teaching and Learning. Features of Prototypical Informal Teaching and Learning. Relationships Among Neighbors. Informal Teaching and Learning Interview. Transcripts.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2016
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
ISBN-10	1-138-97272-X / 113897272X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-97272-8 / 9781138972728
Zustand	Neuware