What is Rogoff's three planes of analysis' in relation to the education and care of infants and toddlers

Question

education studies

Answer 1

"Barbara Rogoff is an American educator and researcher who focuses on the social and collaborative nature of learning and the different forms of guidance that an adult provides a child.

Rogoff’s detailed observations of the relationships between adults and children provide important insights into the most effective approaches for literacy teaching.

Rogoff’s research focuses on what adults and children do when they are engaged in a learning experience. This is useful when considering effective teaching approaches in literacy.

Rogoff emphasises:

- the importance of communities of learning that foster collaborative relationships between the adult and the child.

- the role that language plays in mediating learning and how this learning becomes internalised and is then translated into action in other times and places.

- the significance of guidance: which can be explicit and clear, or tacit and implied.

- the ‘space’ in which learning takes place: either proximal, close or distal, and at some distance from the learner.

Children take part in the activities of their community, engaging with other children and with adults, in routine and tacit situations, as well as explicit collaboration (both in each other's presence and in otherwise socially structured activities).

A child is prepared for participation in future events through the process of participation. "

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