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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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“We txt 2 sty cnnectd”: An African American Mother and Son Communicate: Digital Literacies, Meaning-Making, and Activity Theory Systems

TL;DR: This paper demonstrated how an African American mother and son communicated with each other via texting and instant messaging (IM) at home, using data from a 2007 larger ethnographic case study of a f...
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Affective productions of mathematical experience

TL;DR: In this paper, a pedagogical tale about the relation between cognition and affect in settings of mathematical learning is presented. But, the authors focus on the classroom practices that produced these conceptions, and not the students' motivation and provided meaningful access to mathematical learning within the classroom collectivity.
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From conditioning to learning communities: Implications of fifty years of research in e-learning interaction design

TL;DR: In this article, a selection of research and development from the past fifty years that has linked pedagogical and learning theory to the design of innovative e-learning systems and activities, and discuss their implications is presented.
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Enterprise ontologies: Review and an activity theory approach

TL;DR: In this article, an alternative, theory-based approach for generating an enterprise ontology, using activity theory, based on psychology, provides a template based approach in capturing the context of individual activity in an organization, using eight key class concepts: activity, outcome, subject, object, community, rules, tools and division of labor.
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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.