The international trend to increase the cognitive achievement of early childhood children
has generated a need for better understanding how concept formation occurs within play …

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2014! How can teachers transform classroom
teaching and learning by making pedagogy more socially and culturally responsive, more …

Modern education is often characterized by a tension between learning and creativity
(Connery et al. in Vygotsky and creativity: A cultural-historical approach to play, meaning …

Sociocultural approaches share the conviction that children's learning and development
take place in historically situated activities that are mediated by the children's culture through …

This research aims to highlight the importance of developing creativity in the school
environment by promoting quality education to gifted students, with contributions from …

This collection offers an inclusive, multifaceted look at individual students' patterns of writing
trajectories, as well as their development of an identity as a writer. Building on rare …

Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory has been invaluable for informing new theoretical
approaches to the study of L2 acquisition. However, the concept of perezhivanie has been …

The ability to construct shared meaning with peers is important for young children's social
and linguistic development. Previous studies have mainly focused on shared meaning …

The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is a concept mostly associated with Lev Vygotsky,
a Russian psychologist. The concept is primarily concerned with social and participatory …

The aim of this chapter is to present a theorisation of “Visual Vivencias” as a method for
studying children aged 3 years and younger and, through this, contribute to a new cultural …