Sociocultural Psychology and Regulatory Processes in Learning Activity

Through the use of new analytical tools, this book presents a dynamic, sociocultural view of behavioural regulation in learning contexts.

This book is for researchers and professionals working with children and adolescents in and out of schools. It offers a unique set of sociocultural analytical lenses to understand how self-regulation, co-regulation, and other-regulation function together as a system of regulatory processes that form an important part of engagement in learning.Written by educational researchers and professionals working with children and adolescents in and out of school, this book shows how self-regulation involves more than an isolated individual's ability to control their thoughts and feelings, particularly in a learning environment. By using Vygotsky's cultural-historical psychological theory, the authors provide a unique set of four analytical lenses for a better understanding of how self-regulation, co-regulation, and other-regulation function as a system of regulatory processes. These lenses move beyond a focus on solitary individuals, who self-regulate behavior, to centre on individuals as relational, agential, and contextually situated. As agents, teachers and their students build their learning contexts and are influenced by these self-engineered contexts. This is a dynamic perspective of a social context and underlies the view that regulatory processes are an integral part of a functional system for learning.