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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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Changing Concepts in Activity: Descriptive and Design Studies of Consequential Learning in Conceptual Practices
Rogers Hall,A. Susan Jurow +1 more
TL;DR: Concepts and conceptual change have been studied extensively as phenomena of individual thinking and action, but changing circumstances of social or cultural groups using concepts are treated as external conditions.
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Learning, knowledge and authority on site: a case study of safety practice
John Rooke,L. A. Clark +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reveal patterns of authority and learning on an experimental construction site that are significant for the promotion of a safety culture and display the methods of understanding used by site personnel to constitute the construction site as a local work site.
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A risk prediction model for software project management based on similarity analysis of context histories
TL;DR: A computational model to assist teams to identify and monitor risks at different points in the life cycle of projects to show the applicability of the risk recommendation to new projects, based on the similarity analysis of context histories.
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Editorial: The art and science of learning design
TL;DR: The learning design approach is introduced, some of the grand challenges associated with it are considered, and the papers in this supplement are presented.
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The qualitative orientation in medical education research
TL;DR: An overview of the assumptions underlying qualitative research and the role of the researcher in the qualitative process is provided, then the main qualitative designs, data collection tools, and finally the basics of qualitative analysis are introduced.
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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.