Vygotsky and Sociology (Paperback)

1. Curriculum and pedagogy in the sociology of education; some lessons from comparing Durkheim and Vygotsky  2. Dialectics, Politics and Contemporary Cultural-historical Research, Exemplified through Marx and Vygotsky  3. Vygotsky and Bernstein  4. Sixth Sense, Second Nature and Other Cultural Ways of Making Sense of our Surroundings: Vygotsky, Bernstein and the Languaged Body  5. The Concept of Semiotic Mediation: Perspectives from Bernstein’s Sociology  6. Negotiating Pedagogic Dilemmas in Non-Traditional Educational Contexts: An Australian Case Study of Teachers’ Work  7. Modalities of authority and the socialisation of the school in contemporary approaches to educational change  8. Semiotic Mediation, Viewed Over Time  9. Boys, skills and class: educational failure or community survival? Insights from Vygotsky and Bernstein  10. ‘Identity’ as a unit of analysis in researching and teaching mathematics  11. Schooling the social classes: Triadic zones of proximal development, communicative capital, and relational distance in the perpetuation of advantage  12. The Pedagogies of Second Language Acquisition: combining cultural historical and sociological traditions