Vygotsky and the Promise of Public Education recontextualizes the scholarship of educator and psychologist Lev Vygotsky highlighting its relevance to contemporary issues in public education. Emphasizing the historical social and cultural formation of conscious awareness Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur advances Vygotsky's project with current research in psychology enabling the redefinition of central concepts such as learning teaching and developing. This attention to how we conceptualize learning and teaching is vital to the project of crafting schools to fulfill the promise of public education. Written for teacher candidates educators researchers and policy-makers this book both recognizes the complications of teaching and learning in public schools and contributes to the scholarship on the critical possibilities of schools as social institutions. The significance of public education for each and every child and teacher and the future that is created in each student-teacher relationship is re-centered as perhaps the most worthwhile project of our time. . Language: English