Latine Children’s Ideas About Learning With Peers in Three Classrooms (Poster 22)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Learning and Motivation in Social and Cultural Contexts 3

Abstract

This video-cued ethnographic study examined the relationship between the types of learning opportunities that children from Latine immigrant families are offered in three pedagogically distinct US first grade classrooms and children’s beliefs about learning – particularly their beliefs about their ability to collaborate and learn with and from their peers. Findings from this study show how Latine children understand and feel a commitment to collaborating with their peers in a way consistent with the features of LOPI (Rogoff, 2014), even when they were in classroom environments that can be characterized as assembly-line instruction.

Author

• Molly E. McManus, San Francisco State University