Wolff Michael Roth: 13 books
Talking Science
Language and Learning in Science Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
This book is about the fundamental nature of talk in school science. Language as a formal system provides resources for conducting everyday affairs, including the doing of science. And while writing science is one aspect, talking science may in fact constitute a much more important means by which...
by Wolff-Michael Roth
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The study described in this book arose in the contextof a three-year collective effort to bring about change in science teaching at Mountain Elementary School. 1 This opportunity emerged after I contacted the school with the idea to help teachers implement student-centered science teaching. At the...
Geometry as Objective Science in Elementary School Classrooms
Mathematics in the Flesh
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
This study examines the origins of geometry in and out of the intuitively given everyday lifeworlds of children in a second-grade mathematics class. These lifeworlds, though pre-geometric, are not without model objects that denote and come to anchor geometric idealities that they will understand at...
by Wolff-Michael Roth
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Psychology, quantitative or qualitative, tends to conceive of the human person using metaphysical concepts and to separate the practical, affective, and intellectual aspects of participation in everyday life. Lev S. Vygotsky, however, was working towards a "concrete human psychology," a...
Authentic School Science
Knowing and Learning in Open-Inquiry Science Laboratories
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
According to John Dewey, Seymour Papert, Donald Schon, and Allan Collins, school activities, to be authentic, need to share key features with those worlds about which they teach. This book documents learning and teaching in open-inquiry learning environments, designed with the precepts of these educational...
Understanding Educational Psychology
A Late Vygotskian, Spinozist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book takes up the agenda of the late (but unknown) L. S. Vygotsky, who had turned to the philosopher Spinoza to develop a holistic approach to psychology, an approach that no longer dichotomized the body and mind, intellect and affect, or the individual and the social. In this approach, there...
Uncertainty and Graphing in Discovery Work
Implications for and Applications in STEM Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2014
This book deals with uncertainty and graphing in scientific discovery work from a social practice perspective. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic study in an advanced experimental biology laboratory. The book shows how, in discovery work where scientists do not initially know what to make of graphs,...
by Wolff-Michael Roth, Angela Calabrese Barton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2004
Rethinking Scientific Literacy presents a new perspective on science learning as a tool for improving communities. By focusing on case studies inside and outside of the classroom, the authors illuminate the relevance of science in students' everyday lives, offering a new vision of scientific literacy...
Curriculum*-in-the-Making
A Post-constructivist Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Curriculum*-in-the-Making theorizes about the living curriculum as an event that is in the making, for the enacted curriculum is something finished, which, only as an object, can be compared to another object. A living curriculum, understood as an event*-in-the-making, leads to a very different appreciation...
Language, Learning, Context
Talking the Talk
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
In what way do educators understand the language they use to make sense of the educational environment?
How does language enable educators and how can they consciously make the most of its potential?
Using the right language and setting the correct tone in the school classroom has repercussions...
Science Education during Early Childhood
A Cultural-Historical Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Children’s learning and understanding of science during their pre-school years has been a neglected topic in the education literature—something this volume aims to redress. Paradigmatic notions of science education, with their focus on biologically governed development and age-specific accession...
Imagination of Science in Education
From Epics to Novelization
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
Researchers agree that schools construct a particular image of science, in which some characteristics are featured while others end up in oblivion. The result is that although most children are likely to be familiar with images of heroic scientists such as Einstein and Darwin, they rarely learn about...
Transactional Psychology of Education
Toward a Strong Version of the Social
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019
Toward the end of his life, the Russian psychologist L.S. Vygotsky turned away from his earlier work that he has become famous for only to sow the seeds for a new theory. In this theory, affect was to play a central role, there was to be a primacy of social relations, and anything mental (mind, thought,...