Theories of learning and studies of instructional practice

Section I: Introductions. Chapter 1: Theorizing Instructional Practice. Timothy Koschmann. Chapter 2: Invention in the Classroom: Structuring Natural Variability as Distribution. Rich Lehrer and Leona Schauble. Appendix A: Transcription conventions Appendix B: Classroom excerpts Section II: The Situated Action Perspective. Chapter 3: A Situative Perspective on Cognition and Learning in Interaction. James Greeno. Chapter 4: A Commentary on Incommensurate Programs. Doug Macbeth. Chapter 5: Representational Competence: A Commentary. Allan Collins. Chapter 6: The Interaction of Content and Control in Group Problem Solving and Learning. Eric Bredo. Chapter 7: Working Both Sides. Kay McClain. Responses to the Commentaries by Jim Greeno. Section III: A Dialogic Theory of Learning. Chapter 8: Saying More Than You Know in Instructional Settings. Jim Wertsch and Sibel Kazak. Chapter 9: Schooling: Domestication or Ontological Construction? Martin Packer. Chapter 10: Developing Fluency versus Conceptual Change. Bruce Sherin. Chapter 11: From Dialectic to Dialogic. Rupert Wegerif. Chapter 12: Vygotsky and Teacher Education in the Knowledge Age. Sharon Derry. Responses to the Commentaries by Jim Wertsch and Sibel Kazak. Section IV: Transactional Inquiry. Chapter 13: A Transactional Perspective on the Practice-Based Science of Teaching and Learning. William Clancey. Chapter 14: On Plants and Textual Representations of Plants: Learning to Reason in Institutional Categories. Roger Saljo. Chapter 15: Contributions of the Transactional Perspective to Instructional Design and the Analysis of Learning in Social Context. Paul Cobb. Chapter 16: Transacting with Clancey's "Transactional Perspective on the Practice-Based Science of Teaching and Learning." Jim Garrison. Chapter 17: Making Sense of Practice in Mathematics: Models, Theories and Disciplines. Jere Confrey. Responses to the Commentaries by Bill Clancey. Section V: Synthesis. Chapter 18: Observations on the Observations. Rich Lehrer and Leona Schauble. Chapter 19: Cultural Forms, Agency, and the Discovery of Invention in Classroom Research on Learning and Teaching. Rogers Hall. Chapter 20: Reflections on Practice, Teaching/Learning, Video, and Theorizing. Frederick Erickson. Chapter 21: Does "Learning" Exist? Ray McDermott.