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Title: Rousing Minds to Life : Teaching, Learning, and Schooling in Social Context by Roland G. Tharp, Ronald G. Gallimore ISBN: 0-521-40603-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 March, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Summary: Winner of the 1993 Grawemeyer Award in Education
Comment: Two California professors who advocate changing the educational environment to improve learning have won the 1993 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education.
Roland Tharp and Ronald Gallimore describe in their 1988 book, "Rousing Minds to Life: Teaching, Learning and Schooling in Social Context," a comprehensive approach to retooling education.
The Grawemeyer Award in Education of $150,000 is awarded annually for ideas that have potential to bring about significant improvement in educational practice and attainment.
Tharp and Gallimore suggest three keys to educational development -- activity, context and time. All human activity takes place in specific contexts; to change human activities, teachers must look first and foremost at the contexts that drive the activities; changing contexts -- and therefore human activities -- requires sustained and persistent work over time. They then give examples to back up their theories. For instance, the book focuses in part on the Kamehameha Early Education Project, a 15-year program in which an interdisciplinary team of teachers and researchers developed a literacy program for native Hawaiian children.
The successful project led to similar efforts with groups such as Latino Americans in Los Angeles and Native Americans in Arizona. It also inspired a second generation of research in the area.
Tharp and Gallimore actually were co-principal investigators for the project, which began in 1969. Gallimore participated in the program until 1979; Tharp until 1986.
Currently, Tharp is professor of education and psychology, and Director of the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence at the University of California, Santa Cruz. While in Hawaii, he founded and directed the Center for the Study of Multicultural Higher Education at the University of Hawaii and the Psychology Department's Clinical Training Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Gallimore is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. Gallimore taught psychology and anthropology and was a research fellow of the Social Science Research Institute at the University of Hawaii.
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Title: Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observation by Carolyn Frank ISBN: 0325002010 Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 28 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title: Vygotsky and Education : Instructional Implications and Applications of Sociohistorical Psychology by Luis C. Moll ISBN: 0521385792 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 29 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $37.00 |
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Title: Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes by L. S. Vygotsky, S. Vygotsky, L. S. Vygotskii, Vera John-Steiner ISBN: 0674576292 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 1980 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Bilingual Education: History Politics Theory and Practice by James Crawford ISBN: 0890755566 Publisher: Bilingual Education Serv Pub. Date: 1995 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: The Cultural Nature of Human Development by Barbara Rogoff ISBN: 0195131339 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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