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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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Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a discourse on thinking about (mathematical) thinking and its relation to discourse in the context of mathematical discourse, and discuss how we mathematize and what we do about it.
Towards a Theory of Mobile Learning
TL;DR: A framework for theorising about mobile learning is offered, to complement theories of infant, classroom, workplace and informal learning, and to inform the design of new environments and technologies to support mobile learning.
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A Theory of Learning for the Mobile Age
TL;DR: As personal mobile technologies for learning become more widespread, studies are starting to show evidence of the value of incorporating mobile devices in teaching and learning and also substantial issues, including conflicts between informal learning with personal devices and traditional classroom education.
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Interest and Self-Sustained Learning as Catalysts of Development: A Learning Ecology Perspective.
TL;DR: In this paper, a learning ecology framework and an associated empirical research agenda are described, highlighting the need to better understand how learning outside school relates to learning within schools or other formal organizations, and how learning in school can lead to learning activities outside school.
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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.