Distinguished Professor Barbara Rogoff received two Lifetime Achievement Awards this spring: The Lifetime Contribution to Cultural Historical Research Award from AERA’s Cultural Historical Research SIG, and the Raymond Buriel Distinguished Leadership Award from SRCD’s Latinx Caucus.
She published an invited article that highlights her theoretical approach and its development. This concept posits that learning and development occur as individuals transform their participation in the practices of their cultural communities. The article describes how Individuals’ contributions and contributions of their cultural contexts comprise a mutual process.
(Almost as gratifying was learning that a cat in Lahore, Pakistan, at the Lahore University of Management Sciences is named after her!)