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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.Abstract:
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.read more
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Work-related well-being in the transformation of nursing home work
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze how the work-relatedness of well-being has been constructed by the presently prevailing work stress approach, to develop better ways of conceptualizing the workrelatedness on the basis of cultural historical activity theory, and to test these new conceptualizations with empirical data from two nursing homes for the elderly.
Critical Transition from Developers to Users : Activity-Theoretical Studies of Interaction and Learning in the Innovation Process
TL;DR: In this article, a case study of the development and implementation of a neuromagnetometer for brain research and diagnostics is presented, with the focus on how people involved in the innovation learn to master the shift from developer to user.
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Organisational learning towards sustainability in higher education
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore different theoretical frameworks to better understand and improve the effectiveness of organisational change processes towards sustainability in higher education, focusing on environmental management of the university campus, case studies and examples of good practice.
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Building Context: Using Activity Theory to Teach About Genre in Multi-Major Professional Communication Courses
Donna J. Kain,Elizabeth Wardle +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose to teach students to research genre use via activity theory as a way of encouraging transfer in multi-major professional communication courses, and provide results from a study using activity theory to teach genre in two different professional communications courses.
Structure and Agency in Medical Case Presentations
TL;DR: It is concluded that genres such as case presentations function as mediating tools that allow participants to negotiate agency across generations and across levels of expertise as sets of strategic choices.
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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
Amos Tversky,Daniel Kahneman +1 more
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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The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action
Barry Checkoway,Donald A. Schön +1 more
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Thought and language
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.