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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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The Situatedness of Work Practices and Organizational Culture: Implications for Information Systems Innovation Uptake:
TL;DR: This paper reports research being conducted in Tanzania that brings an ethnographic research approach to understanding relations between local health care practices and health information systems development, by asking how health workers’ practices and everyday actions are influenced by the context of their specific situation.
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Boundary action in construction projects: new collaborative project practices
TL;DR: In this paper, traditional construction project practice has been based on rigid and impermeable boundaries that have made communication, cooperation and integration a major challenge, and therefore, new coll...
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Information systems development in a developing country: theoretical analysis of special requirements in Nigeria and Africa
TL;DR: It is suggested that there are special requirements that should be taken into consideration in systems development methodology in Africa-like sustainability, affordability, socio-economic justification and community participation.
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Integrating ICT to higher education in China: From the perspective of Activity Theory
TL;DR: Activity theory proved a powerful tool to analyse and understand the contradictions in an activity system and to identify contradictions in their teaching systems that could lead to teachers’ implementation of a student-centred ICT pedagogy.
Dissertation
Mise en place d'un dispositif LMOOC d'enseignement-apprentissage des langues : analyse didactique d'une recherche intervention
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a scenario pedagogique for the development of a developpement of a langagier in a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
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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.