Career
Her work bridges psychology with anthropology, drawing on Vygotsky. She holds the University of California Presidential Chair as a professor at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Barbara Rogoff investigates cultural variation in learning processes and settings, with special interest in communities where schooling has not been prevalent.
Barbara Rogoff also wrote a chapter in the edited Handbook of Child Psychology.
Her chapter was the 14th in the book and entitled Cognition as a Collaborative Process. 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, Barbara Rogoff wrote Developing Destinies: A Mayan Midwife and Town. This book not only outlines how cultural practices guide ones participation, but how community members choose and change cultural practices.
