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

Through the use of new analytical tools, this book presents a dynamic, sociocultural view of behavioural regulation in learning contexts.

Lynda D. Stone (Author), Tabitha Hart (Author)

9781107512238, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 July 2023

145 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 0.8 cm, 0.222 kg

'This book provides a carefully crafted blend of theory and practical ideas that make it possible for teachers to treat self-regulation as part of a constantly evolving classroom dynamic. The authors' use of concrete cases to illustrate theoretical ideas succeeds in helping teachers to arrange lessons that create active learners.' Michael Cole, Emeritus Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Diego

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.

List of figures
List of transcription Excerpts
Foreword Regina Day Langhout
Acknowledgments
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1. Introduction
2. Cultural-historical psychological theory
3. The relational habitus and regulatory processes
4. Practical-moral knowledge and regulatory processes
5. Identity and competence woven together through regulatory processes
6. Contextual mood and regulatory processes
7. Conclusion
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Educational psychology [JNC], Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Psychology [JM]