Barbara Rogoff is an American academic who is UCSC Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
[2] Rogoff investigates cultural variation in learning processes and settings, with special interest in communities where schooling has not been prevalent.
[1] Rogoff's book Learning Together: Children and Adults in a School Community,[4] co-authored with teachers Carolyn Turkanis and Leslee Bartlett, profiled Salt Lake City's "Open Classroom," a parent-cooperative education program that is now a K-8 charter school.
Rogoff authored a chapter, "Cognition as a Collaborative Process", in the edited Handbook of Child Psychology.
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.