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Moll, Luis – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
This paper presents an overview of some of Michael Cole's work, starting with his pioneering research in Liberia with the Kpelle (and later, with Sylvia Scribner, studies of literacy with the Vai, 1981), which was formative of his version of a cultural-historical psychology, his translation and interpretations of the work of L. S. Vygotsky and…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Foreign Countries, Educational Anthropology
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Prieto, Linda; Arreguín-Anderson, María G.; Yuen, Timothy T.; Ek, Lucila D.; Sánchez, Patricia; Machado-Casas, Margarita; García, Adriana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2016
This paper presents four projects in which mobile devices are used to support authentic learning in an afterschool technology club, "La Clase Mágica" (LCM@UTSA), designed to motivate underrepresented elementary school children in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The implementation of mobile devices into our LCM@UTSA is…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Teaching Methods
Rahm, Jrène; Lachaîne, Audrey; Mathura, Ahlia – Canadian Journal of Education, 2014
Through two stories of youth voice, learning, and identity development in an afterschool science program for girls only, we show the ways in which such programs can be understood as important identity-building practices. We describe key dimensions of a socio-cultural approach to youth voice, learning, and identity, situated also in the context of…
Descriptors: Self Concept, After School Programs, Ethics, Science Programs