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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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Inventing Mapping: Creating Cultural Forms to Solve Collective Problems
TL;DR: In this paper, the conceptual trajectory of a classroom of 2nd and 3rd-grade students as they reinvent topographical lines to represent height in a map within the constraints of an overhead perspective is described.
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G.H. Mead: theorist of the social act
TL;DR: G. H. Mead as mentioned in this paper traces the development of the social act out of Dewey's theory of the act, and argues that this theory does not sufficiently account for consciousness.
MOBIlearn WP 4 - PEDAGOGICAL METHODOLOGIES AND PARADIGMS (UON, UOB, OU) Guidelines for learning/teaching/tutoring in a mobile environment
Giasemi Vavoula,Josie Taylor,Mike Sharples,Paul Lefrere,Peter Lonsdale,L. Naismith,J. Waycott,Patrick McAndrew +7 more
TL;DR: HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not, which may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers.
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Exploring a sociocultural approach to writing strategy research: Mediated actions in writing activities
TL;DR: This study investigates how English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ writing strategy use within the Activity Theory framework is investigated and identifies four types of writing strategies, namely, artifact-mediated, rule- mediated, community-mediated and role-mediated strategies.
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Genre Systems at Work DSM-IV and Rhetorical Recontextualization in Psychotherapy Paperwork
TL;DR: The authors describe four interrelated analytical concepts useful for studying the discursive practices of professional writers: intertextuality, interdiscursivity, genre systems, and recontextualization.
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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.