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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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‘Use-Value’ and the Re-thinking of Skills, Learning and the Labour Process:
TL;DR: In this paper, the use-value theory on the labour/learning process is used to understand the contradictory processes that occur simultaneously in all workplaces under capitalism, and in turn offers a means to more coherently assess the full range of human learning.
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Using the Communities of Practice Framework to Examine an After-School Environmental Education Program for Hispanic Youth.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the applicability of the communities of practice framework to the analysis of learning in environmental education, focusing on the learning in after-school environmental education programs for Hispanic youth.
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Teachers’ experiences of engagement with and in educational research: what can be learned from teachers’ views?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore what is known about teachers' engagement in and with educational research with a special emphasis on teachers' voice evoking their experience of participating in research.
Studenters skrivande i två kunskapsbyggande miljöer
TL;DR: This article examined student writing in its institutional setting, examining students' texts, professional discourse, and educational practices, and found that students' writing in the institutional setting can be categorized into three categories: academic, professional, and experiential.
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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.