Barbara Rogoff is an American academic who is UCSC Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the

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. Her research is in different learning between

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and bridges

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and

anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

Education and career

Rogoff graduated from

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with a

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in psychology in 1971. She earned her

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from

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in 1977. Rogoff investigates cultural variation in learning processes and settings, with special interest in communities where schooling has not been prevalent. Rogoff is the recipient of a Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award from the

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and UCSC's 2017 Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research. Her fellowships include the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and the

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Books

Rogoff's book ''Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community'',, Oxford University Press 2002. co-authored with teachers Carolyn Turkanis and Leslee Bartlett, profiled Salt Lake City's "Open Classroom," a parent-cooperative education program that is now a K-8 charter school. Rogoff authored a chapter, "Cognition as a Collaborative Process", in the edited ''Handbook of Child Psychology''. In it, she discusses Constructivist theorist Piaget and Sociocultural theorist Vygotsky in relation to collaboration, the role of adult experts in the process of learning, peer interaction and community collaborative sociocultural activities. Most recently, Rogoff wrote ''Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town''. This book outlines how cultural practices guide one's participation and how community members choose and change cultural practices.

References

External links

Barbara Rogoff biography

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