Instructors:  Dr. Luis C. Moll & Karen Spear Ellinwood (TA)

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You can access the D2L (online) course page at http://d2l.arizona.edu/index.asp

This page is the Fall 2006 home page for the Vygotsky & Education seminar. We will re-activate missing links (to readings) at the start of the semester. Thank you. Online sessions of this course will occur through the D2L page at the above link. The syllabus will be posted there as well. We will use the two sites to maximize space for course materials and enhance communication.

• Course Syllabus

• Schedule of Readings

• Course Bibliography

• Required Texts (updated for 2006)

• Onsite Links to readings

• Books on reserve: search by instructor

• Book purchase links from non UA sources on internet

• Supplementary course materials

• PowerPoint from Class 2 (08.31.06)

• Symposia & Review page --> will include Midterm topics students post to D2L site

• Internet Resources

• Scholars & More scholars (contemporaries/of the Vygotskian tradition)

• UA Library home page - UA ERes  - UA Ebrary - UA Database search - Search UA Databases by Subject

•  Article Summary Forms  - You do not have to use these. A few years ago, a graduate student volunteered her format for writing summaries of articles to prepare for her comps. I've modified it, and if you choose to use them, I'm sure you will too. It's not something to be turned in, just a tool for thought or thinking. The article digest is better used with articles discussing theory, whereas the article summary applies better to case studies where there is a discussion of research findings and conclusions.

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•  Visit the Class D2L (distance learning) website (2006) - http://d2l.arizona.edu/index.asp

Required texts

• Cole, M. (1998). Cultural Psychology: A once and future discipline. Belknap Press.
• Lee, C., & Smagorinsky, P. (2000). Vygotskian perspectives on literacy research: Constructing meaning through collaborative inquiry. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
• Moll, L.C. (1990). Vygotsky and Education: Educational implications and applications of educational psychology. LC Moll (Ed.), New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

• Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes, M. Cole and C. Scribner, Eds., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Suggested Readings

• Tomasello, M. (2003/1999). The Cultural origins of Human Cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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• While it is not required reading, some may find the Funds of knowledge text with its theoretical and practical applications to be helpful in addressing issues of learning and development in family and school contexts.

  Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households and Classrooms  

  by Norma E. Gonzalez (Editor), Luis Moll (Editor), Cathy Amanti (Editor) (2005)

• LCHC - Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition

• Las lecturas en español

• National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity, Full Text publications, including, Second language learning, & Instructional Conversations - authors include Luis Moll, Norma Gonzalez, Ronald Gallimore, Robert Rueda, Courtney Cazden, Claude Goldenberg, Roland Tharpe, & Elinor Ochs 

• 5th Dimension sites worldwide (on this site)

•  5th Dimension Clearinghouse website

• Ronald Gallimore (on-site link to articles) (off-site links)

• Vera John-Steiner's website

NY Times Articles

• Carey (2004) - NY Times, Autism Therapies Still a Mystery, But Parents Take a Leap of Faith

• Hellerstein (1988) - NY Times magazine Plotting the brain (re: Edelman's neuronal networks)

• Johnson (2005) - NY Times, Circuits section, Essay: Tool for thought

• Warner (2004) - NY Times, book review, An alchemy of mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain, by Diane Ackerman.

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