United by the belief that the most significant factor in shaping the minds of young people is the cultural setting in which learning takes place, the twenty eminent contributors to this volume present new thinking on education across the boundaries of school, home, work and community. Content: Chapter 1 Introduction: Sociocultural Perspectives on the Future of Education (pages 1-17): Gordon Wells and Guy ClaxtonChapter 2 Education for the Learning Age: A Sociocultural Approach to Learning to Learn (pages 19-33): Guy ClaxtonChapter 3 Becoming the Village: Education Across Lives (pages 34-45): Jay L. LemkeChapter 4 The Gift of Confidence: A Vygotskian View of Emotions (pages 46-58): Holbrook Mahn and Vera John?SteinerChapter 5 From Activity to Directivity: The Question of Involvement in Education (pages 59-72): Pablo del Rio and Amelia AlvarezChapter 6 Sociocultural Perspectives on Assessment (pages 73-83): Caroline GippsChapter 7 Teaching, Learning, and Development: A Post?Vygotskian Perspective (pages 84-96): Anna Stetsenko and Igor ArievitchChapter 8 Emerging Learning Narratives: A Perspective from Early Childhood Education (pages 87-111): Margaret CarrChapter 9 Semiotic Mediation and Mental Development in Pluralistic Societies: Some Implications for Tomorrow's Schooling (pages 112-126): Ruqaiya HasanChapter 10 Learning to Argue and Reason Through Discourse in Educational Settings (pages 127-140): Clotilde Pontecorvo and Laura SterponiChapter 11 Developing Dialogues (pages 141-153): Neil MercerChapter 12 Supporting Students' Learning of Significant Mathematical Ideas (pages 154-166): Paul Cobb and Kay McClainChapter 13 A Developmental Teaching Approach to Schooling (pages 167-180): Seth ChaiklinChapter 14 Standards for Pedagogy: Research, Theory and Practice (pages 181-194): Stephanie Stoll Dalton and Roland G. TharpChapter 15 Inquiry as an Orientation for Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education (pages 195-210): Gordon WellsChapter 16 Can a School Community Learn to Master its Own Future? An Activity?Theoretical Study of Expansive Learning Among Middle School Teachers (pages 211-224): Yrjo Engestrom, Ritva Engestrom and Arja SuntioChapter 17 Cultural Historical Activity Theory and the Expansion of Opportunities for Learning After School (pages 225-238): Katherine Brown and Michael ColeChapter 18 Building a Community of Educators Versus Effecting Conceptual Change in Individual Students: Multicultural Education for Pre?Service Teachers (pages 239-251): Eugene Matusov and Renee HayesChapter 19 Organizing Excursions Into Specialist Discourse Communities: A Sociocultural Account of University Teaching (pages 252-264): Andy NorthedgeChapter 20 Afterword (pages 265-270): Luis C. Moll