Constructing a Community of Thought

Contents: M. Cathrene Connery: Building Bridges: The Contribution of Dr. Vera John-Steiner's Work - Robert Lake/M. Cathrene Connery: Constructing a Community of Thought: Access through Epistolary Understanding - Peter Smagorinsky: The Bold and Courageous Path of Vera John-Steiner - Edward De Santis: Living Memory - Constance R. Sutton: My Life-Long Dialogue with Vera John-Steiner - Suki John: Veronka, My Czardas Dancing, Creative Thinking Mother - Reuben Hersh: My Favorite Collaborator - Anne Wiltshire: From Your House to My House - Bernard Spolsky: Above and Beyond Box Consciousness - Michael Cole: Memories of a Long Conversation - Csaba Pléh/Ottilia Boross: Networks in Life and in Science - Susan Ervin-Tripp: The Remarkable Power of Bisociation - Laura E. Berk: Young Children's Sociodramatic Play: Wellspring of Collaboration and Learning - Artin Göncü: Discovering Self in Play - Steven G. McCafferty: Vera Was a Vygotskian before She Knew Who Vygotsky Was - Maryhelen Snyder: Vera: Tribute and Tributary - Linda Finlay: Revisiting an Interactive Approach to Advancing Literacy - Nan Elsasser: Working Classroom: An Intergenerational Arts Community - Henry Shonerd: Resonance - David Kellogg: Water and Wine: Painting as the Emergence of Word Meanings from Images - Teresa Meehan: Applying a Functional Systems Approach to the Study of Language Development - R. Keith Sawyer: Vera John-Steiner's Influence on Creativity Research - David Henry Feldman: Who Knew? Being Part of a Thought Community on Creativity: An Essay in Honor of Vera John-Steiner - Patricia A. St. John: Dignified Interdependence - Kimberly Cotter-Lemus: Cognitive Pluralism and Creative Collaboration - Shirley Brice Heath: Reverberations - Sabra Sowell-Lovejoy: The Influence of Vera John-Steiner's Work on Sabra Sowell-Lovejoy: Artist and Educator - Robert Lake: Bridges are Made for Movement - Seana Moran: Tapestry: Interwoven Minds, Emerging Meanings - Nancy J. Uscher: Vera John-Steiner on Creativity and

Robert Lake, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading at Georgia Southern University where he teaches courses in multicultural education from local and global perspectives. His expertise in music and English as a Second Language informs his research into creativity, critical educational perspectives, and the imaginative curriculum. A frequent presenter at international conferences, he is the author of several books including Vygotsky on Education (Peter Lang, 2011).
M. Cathrene Connery, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Education at Ithaca College. A bilingual educator, researcher, and advocate, she has drawn on her visual arts education as a painter to inform her research and professional activities in language, literacy, and sociocultural studies. She has utilized Vygotskian theory to articulate ethnographic accounts in Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy: Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community (Peter Lang, 2011) and as an editor and contributor to Vygotsky and Creativity: A Cultural-Historical Approach to Play, Meaning-Making, and the Arts (Peter Lang, 2010).