Vygotsky and the promise of public education / Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Artin Göncü -- Preface -- 1. Vygotsky's unifying approach -- 2. Understanding learning and development -- 3. What is thinking? -- 4. Reconsidering the role of play and imagination -- 5. Redefining teaching and teachers' work -- 6. Attending to diverse experiential histories -- 7. What are we teaching? -- 8. Assessment for learning -- 9. Nurturing the creative and moral imagination -- 10. Crafting schools for unknown social futures -- Index.

"Vygotsky and the Promise of Public Education recontextualizes the scholarship of educator and psychologist Lev Vygotsky, highlighting its relevance to contemporary issues in public education. Emphasizing the historical, social, and cultural formation of conscious awareness, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur advances Vygotsky’s project with current research in psychology, enabling the redefinition of central concepts such as learning, teaching, and developing. This attention to how we conceptualize learning and teaching is vital to the project of crafting schools to fulfill the promise of public education. Written for teacher candidates, educators, researchers, and policy-makers, this book both recognizes the complications of teaching and learning in public schools and contributes to the scholarship on the critical possibilities of schools as social institutions."--Publisher's website.