What events take place at the intersection of cultural identity, education, and experience? How can they be measured, replicated? How can teachers use such personal phenomena to enhance student performance?

"While many volumes have been written about the social context of children's learning, less attention has been given to the cultural context in which cognition and learning take place. This book focuses precisely on the cultural aspects of learning and cognitive processes, in a full-blown examination of theory, methods, findings, and applications in this area. In examining how to apply sociocultural theory to learning across the lifespan, the chapter authors cover such topics as family context, peer interaction and formal education. The interactive domains that adults and children use to create learning situations are explored with several chapters on children's learning and the ways that cognitive processes shape and are reciprocally shaped by development, including the growth of moral concepts. TOC:Cultural Learning in Context.- Sociocultural Contexts of Learning.- Sustainability of Daily Routines as a Family Outcome.- An Ethnomodel of Teaching and Learning: Apprenticeship of Zinacantec Maya Women's Tasks.- Cultural Approaches to Supporting Early Learning in Preschoolers.- Ola Ka Inoa (The Name Lives): Culture at Home and Early Education Outcomes of Hawaiian Children.- Cultural transmission of social knowledge in preschool: A Costa Rican perspective.- Features of Teaching Associated with Significant Gains in Language Test Scores by Hawaiian Preschool Children.- Learning Connections: A home-school partnership to enhance emergent literacy and emergent math skills in at-risk preschoolers.- "You Cannot Cheat the Footwork": Moral Training in Adolescent Dance Classes.- Enacting the Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy in a Culturally Relevant High School Program.- Aligning Practice to Theory: Attitudes of Students in Re-cultured and Comprehensive High Schools."

Introduction: Cultural Learning in Context.- Cultural Practices and Ways of Learning in Informal Settings.- Sociocultural Contexts of Learning.- Sustainability of Daily Routines as a Family Outcome.- An Ethnomodel of Teaching and Learning.- Cultural Approaches to Supporting Early Learning in Preschoolers.- Ola Ka Inoa (The Name Lives).- Cultural Transmission of Social Knowledge in Preschool.- Features of Teaching Associated with Significant Gains in Language Test Scores by Hawaiian Preschool Children.- Learning Connections.- Approaches to Supporting Learning in Middle- and High-School Settings.- "You Cannot Cheat the Footwork".- Enacting the Five Standards for Effective Pedagogy in a Culturally Relevant High School Program.- Aligning Practice to Theory.