Writing as a Learning Activity

Writing as a learning activity offers an account of the potentials of writing as a powerful tool for facilitating learning and making it more profound and productive in a variety of disciplines and collaborative contexts at different school levels.

Perry Klein is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Western University (Canada). He completed his Ph.D. in Applied Educational Psychology at the University of Toronto. He has published several articles and book chapters on writing as a learning activity. Pietro Boscolo is emeritus Professor at the University of Padova (Italy), where he has taught educational psychology for four decades. He has published several articles and chapters on writing, and has co-edited Writing and Motivation with S. Hidi (2007).Lori Kirkpatrick, Ph.D. (2012), Western University (Canada), is an Assistant Professor in Child and Youth Studies at Brock University (Canada). She researches and publishes in the area of writing, particularly writing from sources (e.g., Kirkpatrick & Klein, 2009).Carmen Gelati, Ph.D. (2007), University of Padova (Italy), is an Assistant Professor in developmental and educational psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy). She has published articles and chapters on writing, especially on instructional interventions and gender differences (e.g., Gelati, 2012).Contributors include Martine Braaksma, Anne Britt, Jerome C. Bush, Nuria Castells, Lerida Cisotto, Isabel Cuevas, Silvia Del Longo, Kenan Dikilitas, Nicoletta Galvan, Thomas D. Griffin, Brian Hand, Leena Laurinen, Markus Linnemann, Charles MacArthur, Elena Martin, Miika Marttunen, Mar Mateos, Mariana Miras, Minna Nykopp, Patrick Pieng, Kelly Simon, Isabel Sole, Sabine Stephany, Brent Steffens, Carla van Boxtel, Jannet van Drie, Mary Grace F. Villanueva, Jennifer Wiley, SaeYeol Yoon.