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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

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This chapter discusses the emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning and the zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research.
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1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

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Participationist Discourse on Mathematics Learning

Anna Sfard
Abstract: Sfard, A. (to appear in 2015). Creating numbers: Participationist discourse on mathematics learning. In D. Butlen, I. Bloch, M. Bosch, C. Chambris, G. Cirade, S. Clivaz, S. Gobert, C. Hache, M. Hersant & C. Mangiante. (Eds.), Rôles et places de la didactique et des didacticiens des mathématiques dans la société et dans le système éducatif. 17è école d'été de didactique des mathématiques. Nantes du 19 au 26 août 2013. ‎Grenoble: La pensée sauvage
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The Design and Evaluation of a Leadership Programme for Experienced Chief Executives from the Public Sector

TL;DR: In this article, an action learning program designed to renew and refresh long-serving chief executives in the English National Health Service who were facing considerable performance pressures is described. But it is suggested that, at times of ongoing change and frustration, programmes such as the one described here can help participants develop a resilient approach to conflicts and tensions and may stimulate commitment and resolve.
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Turning practically: broadening the horizon

TL;DR: Turn to practice does not necessarily equate with becoming more engaged or with making social science relevant, or with moving social science closer to the practical concerns of separate practitioners as mentioned in this paper. But it is argued that the effort should be concentrated on developing a type of theory that helps practitioners articulate what they already do, and therefore somehow know.
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Re-mediating the University: Learning through Sociocritical Literacies

TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for the development of robust learning ecologies organized around the cultural historical concept of re-mediation is provided, which involves a transformation of the learning ecology, including a shift in the way tools and forms of assistance function to incite and facilitate learning.
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Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes

TL;DR: In this paper, Cole and Scribner discuss the role of play in children's development and play as a tool and symbol in the development of perception and attention in a prehistory of written language.
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Judgment Under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases

TL;DR: The authors described three heuristics that are employed in making judgements under uncertainty: representativeness, availability of instances or scenarios, and adjustment from an anchor, which is usually employed in numerical prediction when a relevant value is available.
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Thought and language

Lev Vygotsky
TL;DR: Kozulin has created a new edition of the original MIT Press translation by Eugenia Hanfmann and Gertrude Vakar that restores the work's complete text and adds materials that will help readers better understand Vygotsky's meaning and intentions as discussed by the authors.