Barbara Rogoff is an American academic who is UCSC Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research is in different learning between cultures and bridges psychology and anthropology.

Education and career

Rogoff graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. in psychology in 1971. She earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1977. Rogoff investigates cultural variation in learning processes and settings, with special interest in communities where schooling has not been prevalent. Rogoff is the recipient of a Distinguished Lifetime Contributions Award from the Society for Research in Child Development and UCSC's 2017 Martin M. Chemers Award for Outstanding Research. Her fellowships include the National Academy of Education, the

American Anthropological Association The American Anthropological Association (AAA) is an organization of scholars and practitioners in the field of anthropology. With 10,000 members, the association, based in Arlington, Virginia, includes archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, ...

, the

Association for Psychological Science The Association for Psychological Science (APS), previously the American Psychological Society, is an international non-profit organization whose mission is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in ...

, the American Psychological Association, and the American Educational Research Association.

Books

Rogoff's book ''Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community'',, Oxford University Press 2002. co-authored with teachers Carolyn Turkanis and Leslee Bartlett, profiled Salt Lake City's "Open Classroom," a parent-cooperative education program that is now a K-8 charter school. Rogoff authored a chapter, "Cognition as a Collaborative Process", in the edited ''Handbook of Child Psychology''. In it, she discusses Constructivist theorist Piaget and Sociocultural theorist Vygotsky in relation to collaboration, the role of adult experts in the process of learning, peer interaction and community collaborative sociocultural activities. Most recently, Rogoff wrote ''Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town''. This book outlines how cultural practices guide one's participation and how community members choose and change cultural practices.

References

External links

Barbara Rogoff biography

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rogoff, Barbara Constructivism (psychological school) Living people American psychologists American women psychologists American women anthropologists Child psychologists Pomona College alumni Harvard University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century American women