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Faculty Profile

Lynda Stone, Ph.D.

Lynda StoneDepartment of Child Development
Sacramento State

Office: 228 Brighton Hall
Office Phone: (916) 278-4326
Email: lstone@csus.edu

Background Information

Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
University of California, Los Angeles, 1996 - 1998

Ph.D. Education
Emphasis: Learning and Instruction (Literacy/Mathematics)
University of California, Los Angeles, 1996

M.A. Education - Leadership
Emphasis: Problem Solving Processes Promoted Through Art Education
University of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1980

Research Interests

Cognitive and motivational processes in formal and informal learning; identities of competency and instructional practices; literacy instruction and learning/developmental processes; collaborative group processes and learning,  institutional socialization processes (emotions, creativity, problem solving).

Publications

  1. Stone, L., Hart, T., Hotchkiss, J., Nasir, N., (accepted).  Co-construction of identities of competency in literacy learning, Discourse Processes.

  2. Stone, L. D. and Gutierrez, K. D., (2007).  Problem articulation and the processes of assistance:  An Activity Theoretic view of mediation in game play.  International Journal of Educational Research.

  3. Stone, L. D. and Hart, T., (2007). Semiotic mediation in literacy learning activity:  Private speech in context. Vygotsky and Leontievian Legacy Today, Cambridge Scholars Press.

  4. Gutiérrez, K. and Stone, L. (2003). Hypermediating Literacy Activity: How Learning Contexts Get Reorganized. In O. Saracho & B. Spodek (Eds.). Contemporary Perspectives in Early Childhood Education.