ABSTRACT
This chapter presents examples that illustrate children asking questions, which used as an example of guided participation in action. Barbara Rogoff described guided participation as a collaborative process in which children participate in on-going routines and activities guided by other, more competent, members of the culture. Rogoff's work in general is a reminder of the importance of taking account of the context in which the children are learning. The guided participation was sometimes through being alongside an experienced person, or more experts other, watching what they were doing, sometimes through social interaction such as talking about what was being done and sometimes through direct teaching. Her view of development involves three interacting planes. These are the individual plane within the child herself; the social plane, involving other people within the community within which the child lives and the actual sociocultural context that defines the manner in which these people engage in the processes of making and sharing meaning.
