Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity: Contributions of Cultural-Historical Psychological Theory

Written by educational researchers and professionals working with children and adolescents in and out of school, this book shows how self-regulation involves more than an isolated individual's ability to control their thoughts and feelings, particularly in a learning environment. By using Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychological theory, the authors provide a unique set of four analytical lenses for a better understanding of how self-regulation, co-regulation, and other-regulation function as a system of regulatory processes. These lenses move beyond a focus on solitary individuals, who self-regulate behavior, to centre on individuals as relational, agential, and contextually situated. As agents, teachers and their students build their learning contexts and are influenced by these self-engineered contexts. This is a dynamic perspective of a social context and underlies the view that regulatory processes are an integral part of a functional system for learning.

Author: Lynda D. Stone, Tabitha Hart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 10/17/2019
Pages: 142
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.61w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781107105034

About the Author
Stone, Lynda D.: - Lynda D. Stone is Professor of Child and Adolescent Development at California State University, Sacramento, where she has received awards for Outstanding Teaching and Community Service. Her research examines teaching-learning practices with attention to learners from non-dominant communities.Hart, Tabitha: - Tabitha Hart is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at San José State University, California. Her research areas include speech codes theory, ethnography of communication, and technology-mediated communication.