Barbara Rogoff

Barbara Rogoff is an educator whose interests lie in understanding and communicating the different learning thrusts between cultures, especially within her book "The Cultural Nature of Human Development" (2003).

She holds the University of California Presidential Chair as a professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz.

Rogoff's book, "Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community" [ISBN: 9780195160314, Oxford University Press 2002.] , co-authored with teachers Carolyn Turkanis and Leslee Bartlett, profiled Salt Lake City's "Open Classroom," a parent-cooperative education program that is now a K-8 charter school.

Barbara Rogoff also wrote a chapter in the edited Handbook of Child Psychology. Her chapter was the 14th in the book and entitled Cognition as a Collaborative Process. In it, she discusses Constructivist theorists Piaget and Vygotsky in relation to collaboration, the role of adult experts in the process of learning, peer interaction and community collaborative sociocultural activities.

External links

* [http://psych.ucsc.edu/faculty/brogoff/index.php?Bio Barbara Rogoff biography]
* [http://wik.ed.uiuc.edu/index.php/Sociocultural_Theory Sociocultural Theory wiki] , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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