Description: This book suggests a strategy to put students' practices, cultures, and identities in the center of a twenty-first-century education.
Brief description: Moisès Esteban-Guitart is Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Girona. He is the editor of the journal Papeles de Trabajo sobre Cultura, Educación y Desarrollo Humano (Working Papers on Culture, Education and Human Development). His research activity spans the fields of cultural psychology and educational research, and he has published widely on issues of identity, cultural diversity, and education.
Review Quotes: 'This is an audacious and vibrant book. Adapting a funds-of-knowledge approach to study identity, it contributes a dynamic, processual understanding of identity in context, not as some sort of stable or inherent trait, but as part of a human subjectivity that mediates and is in turn mediated by sociocultural practices of all kinds. It thus views identity, as also informed by a Vygotskian perspective, as a dialectical process, as both tool and outcome, one could say, and as central to all forms of semiotic mediation, thereby becoming a leading factor in human development and education, especially in today's more 'liquid' or 'networked' society.' Luis C. Moll, Professor Emeritus, University of Arizona